Arabs Seize Jewish Village, Associated Press, NY Herald Tribune, Apr. 19, 1948.

JERUSALEM, April 18 (AP).-British and Arab reports said to night that troops of the Trans-Jordan Arab Legion had occupied the Jewish settlement of Neve Yaacov. Official Jewish sources denied it.

A British military source said the Arabs entered the settlement behind an artillery and machinegun barrage, and captured twenty Jewish armored cars. Haganah was believed to be preparing a counter-attack, the source added.

The Arab news agency, at Jerusalem, quoted an Arab Legion spokesman as saying Arab forces occupied the settlement because “one of our soldiers was killed while passing there last week,” Women and children were removed from the settlement in January and Haganah forces took over. Snipers have been hitting Arab traffic from a vantage point on a slight rise and from a concrete watch tower.

The Arab spokesman said fifty Jews were killed. A Haganah source said one Jew was killed and eight wounded and two Arabs and one British officer of the Legion were killed. Haganah said four Arab Legion cars took part in the attack. The British officer died when one overturned.

The Arab Legion is the force of King Abullah of Trans-Jordan. It is commanded by British officers and more than half of its estimated 20,000-man strength is now on loan to the British for police duty in the Holy Land. Last night, Arab military sources at Cairo said King Abdullah had dispatched Legion forces from Trans-Jordan to fight for the Arabs in Palestine.

Haganah declared its forces had killed fourteen Arabs in an attack on Tiberias, on the shore of the Lake of Galilee, in northern Palestine.