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Six Killed in Holy Land Violence, Nov. 12, 1947.

main post office at Tel Aviv bombedJERUSALEM, Nov. 12 (AP)—Six persons were killed and five others wounded in the Holy Land today in two clashes involving authorities and Jewish groups.

A communique said three 16-year-old Jewish girls and two youths were killed when police and troops raided an arms cache and weapons school, believed to have been conducted by the underground Stern organization, 10 miles north of the all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv.

Another Jewish girl and a youth were wounded in the encounter, which occurred at Shunath Maccabi.

A British police sergeant was slain at Haifa and two other sergeants and a constable were wounded in a machine-gun attack on a coffee house. The attack was generally believed to have been carried out by the Stern gang members.

It was the first serious outbreak of violence in Haifa since September 29, when extremists blew up a district police station, killing 10 persons, including four British policemen.

The cafe which figured in today’s shooting is situated only a block from the damaged police station, which is now undergoing repairs.

The assailants escaped. Police said they were young Jews, who assembled in the cafe as the policemen were drinking tea and then left. A short time later an office in the upper floor of the building across the street was robbed, apparently by the same group, and some of the Jews came out and fired down on the policemen.

The attack came a short time after a military tribunal in Haifa sentenced two members of the Stern gang, which calls itself “Fighters for the Freedom of Israel,” to 20 years in prison for possessing firearms, ammunition and two bombs.

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