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Beach Near Haifa...
Under cover of darkness, the Haganah captain escaped the British and raced for the Palestine shore. The Arlossoroff beached in the little town of Bat Galim, near Haifa, and prepared to resist British boarding parties...
...fight lasted three hours. Escorted by three more destroyers and a cruiser which had rushed to the scene, the Exodus limped into Haifa harbor. As they were transferred to another ship which was to return them to France, where they had embarked, the refugees doggedly sang the Zionist anthem Hatikvah ("Our hope is still not lost...
...Palestine last week a bomb split the Egypt-Palestine night express train, carrying about 500 British troops. The dead: five British soldiers, three civilians. Near Tel-Aviv a van loaded with explosive blew up near a police billet: four British were killed. In Haifa, terrorists assassinated A. E. Conquest, chief of the British Criminal Investigation Department in northern Palestine...
...outbreak of violence which Jews and British feared came with a rush. There were explosions and gun fights in Haifa, Natanya and at five Army camps; two British officers and a Jewish civilian were killed. (In London a bomb was found in the Colonial Office; its crude timing device failed to explode it.) Irgun announced that it would take ten British lives for each of its "soldiers" hanged. Palestine was taut. The Army's showdown with the terror gangs seemed to be at hand...