Pasadena Star-News · Pasadena, California · 23 April 1948
CP-1948-020
Militiamen Consolidate Gains in Haifa
International News Service, Jerusalem
Transcribed from the clipping
“JERSUALEM, April 23. (INS)—Jewish militiamen consolidated their positions in the port city of Haifa today following a mass exodus of Arabs who fled under attack. Jewish and Arab officials planned a renewal of truce talks to settle the strife in the strategic port with Britons acting as mediators.
Events at Haifa yesterday during which the Jewish Haganah forces seized vital parts of the city in a swift drive which caught the Arabs by surprise caused considerable uneasiness among Arabs in the Jerusalem area.
Alarmed Arabs, suspecting that complete control of the Holy City might be the next aim of the Jews, kept up a steady barrage with mortars and rifles against Jewish quarters around Jerusalem. A considerable portion of Haifa’s 60,000 Arab population fled the city.
Although Arab leaders formally rejected original truce terms submitted by the Jews, the city was in effect surrendered by Arab agreement to evacuate.”
Context added by this archive
The dispatch carries both accounts: fled under attack in the first paragraph, surrendered by Arab agreement to evacuate in the last. The sixty thousand are in the body and not in the headline. “JERSUALEM” is the paper’s spelling.
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"Militiamen Consolidate Gains in Haifa," Pasadena Star-News, 23 April 1948, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1948-020. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1948-020
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