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(By the Associated Press)
Jews said the old walled city of Acre surrendered unconditionally Tuesday after a 72-hour street battle. Haganah, the Army of Israel, had claimed 4,000 Arabs were trapped in the northern Palestine town, just over the boundary from the new Jewish state.
The Jews claimed also to have drowned 500 Arabs, including troops from armored columns, by opening a dam just south of Galilee.
Light bombers attacked Tel Aviv for the fourth day running. The 45-minute raid was the longest yet, and more bombs fell than before. The Arabs said numerous fires were started there Monday.
A Beirut broadcast said Egyptian and Trans-Jordan troops had made a juncture at Lydda, 20 miles southeast of Tel Aviv. A few Saudi Arabian soldiers were said to have joined the Egyptians. Other successes were claimed by the Arabs in North and South Palestine, on the ground and aloft.
Haganah, the Jewish army, said the Arabs had started a massed attack on the Jewish quarter of the old walled city of Jerusalem. British sources said the Arabs captured Barclay’s bank and Daroutl’s hotel in the old walled city. The situation in Jerusalem was confused by back of communication. Egypt declared what amounted to a blockade on Israel.
AT CAIRO, the Egyptian government warned that it “cannot tolerate” delivery of munitions and war supplies to Zionists in Palestine. Continued attempts to do so may prove dangerous, it said.
A statement by the defense ministry, copies of which it said were sent to all powers, reported that ships carrying war equipment and munitions for “Zionist terrorist gangs” still are arriving at Palestine ports and warned “all concerned” of the dangers involved.
Arabs declared earlier that the Egyptian army’s advance into Palestine from the south has brought them to within 30 miles of Tel Aviv.
An Iraqi army dispatch from the north said King Abdullah personally directed Iraqi infantry and artillery attacks Monday which resulted in the capture of the Jewish settlement of Naharayim and the Gesher police post in northern Palestine.