U.N. Officer Killed as Jeep Hits Mine, Associated Press, NY Herald Tribune, July 7, 1948.

2 on Truce Team Wounded in Nazareth Area

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HAIFA, Israel, July 6 (AP).-A French officer attached to the United Nations Truce Commission was killed today when his U. N. jeep struck a mine in the Nazareth area. A French officer and an Italian priest serving as an interpreter were wounded.

George Barnes, U. N. press officer, said the two French field observers were members of a twenty-one-man French team supplied for the commission. They were investigating charges that the Jews violated the truce by constructing fortifications.

Commandant Rene La Barriere was killed in the explosion, which occurred as the jeep was traveling toward Jewish lines. Commandant Dumous Tier de Canchy was wounded in the leg. (This dispatch did not identify the wounded priest.)

An American Consulate official and U. N. representatives went to the scene to investigate.