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Evening Star · 27 April 1948

CP-1948-099

Palestine

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By the Associated Press, Jerusalem

Palestine — Evening Star, 27 April 1948
Evening Star · 27 April 1948

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“Fighting is continuing in the Arab city of Jaffa, which has been under attack by Irgun Zvai Leumi, Jewish underground group. British Army sources said Arab refugees fled the Arab port at the rate of about 20 vehicles an hour all day yesterday. Thousands put to sea in all kinds of craft. Many were believed trying to reach Egypt. Another shipload of 600 visaless Jewish refugees, the second in three days, appeared in Palestine waters. The vessel is called the Nashon. An Amman, Trans-Jordan, dispatch said 66-year-old King Abdullah will lead the armies of Trans-Jordan, Syria and Lebanon against the Jews. Abdullah said the Arab League military council gave him the command. Questioned about moving his armies before the expiration of the British mandate, Abdullah told newsmen in Amman: ‘Instead of waiting to May 15, Jews started to attack peaceful villages, Haifa and Jaffa and a great part of Jerusalem. This is sufficient provocation for Arab states to send their armies and I consider that no one government in the Arab states can dare resist the wish of its people.’ Although he did not say it in so many words Abdullah’s statement was in effect a declaration of war against Palestine’s Jews.”

Photograph caption

“Arrow points to Jericho, Palestine, into which one company of the Arab Legion entered ‘under British orders,’ according to an official British spokesman in Jerusalem. Reports that Haifa is being shelled from Acre (both underlined), across the bay, were unconfirmed. Another report, later denied, said Egyptian troops had invaded Palestine at an unidentified point along the border.” —AP Wirephoto.

Context added by this archive

Twenty vehicles an hour, all day, attributed to British Army sources, on 26 April 1948. On the same page King Abdullah gives his reason for moving before 15 May, in his own words, and the paper explains what it amounts to in the sentence underneath. Jewish refugees arriving without visas and Arab refugees leaving by sea are in consecutive paragraphs.

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