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Show VIOLENCE WAVE HITS HOLY LAND JERUSALEM, Oct 15 (UP) Twenty-four hour of bloodshed, the outgrowth of Great Britain'! Pales-I'n. Pales-I'n. partition propoaal, were climaxed cli-maxed tonight with the enforcement enforce-ment of drastic rurfew regulations. After a day of violent disorder, including ambushing, a train derall-merit derall-merit and a bus bombing. In which Bt lea.t seven persons wera killed, including two British constables, nnd more than a score wera wounded wound-ed authorities decreed the curfew. The streets ot Jerusalem will be itcared of all persons without per- mils between th. hour, of p. m. nnd ( a. m. Penalties for infraction! infrac-tion! are six months' Imprisonment nr 100 pounds fine, or both, by summary sum-mary trial. The Jewish colony of Roshplna, in northern Palestine, was subjected to heavy gunfire, a Haifa-Ludd railroad rail-road train wa. derailed by a land mine nrar th. Arab village of Kal-kilia Kal-kilia and fired upon, and a Jewish bus en route to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv was bombed. Th. British constables wera ambushed am-bushed and killed on Hebron road, near Solomon's pools, where six po-I"'. po-I"'. tenders were on patrol duty. There waa no way of determining Ihrir assailants. Three unidentified persons were killed In the train wreck. After th. explosion several shots were fired at the train. Two Arabs were killed and eight Jews, Including two women, were injured in the bombing of the bus. The bus driver wa. arrested when authorities suspected that h. .hot one of the Arabs after th. bombing. A "semicurfew" wa. called in Jerusalem and additional police were assigned to patrol duty. Theater, The-ater, were closed and police advised ad-vised pedestrian, to remain In their homes. Ons of thos. wounded In tha bu. bombing wa. a Jewish police super-numary super-numary and another waa Jacob Cohen Weitt, son of one of tha directors di-rectors of the Jewish national fund. |