The Bomb Outrages in Palestine

The following police communique has been issued here with regard to two attempts made by bomb-throwers in the Haifa district on life and property (altogether there have been four bomb attempts in the district within a period of eight days).

At 9.30 in the evening on January 4th., says the communique, while Jacob Joseph Mishkov, the Ghaffir in the Ahuzath Herbert Samuel, was sitting in his room, a bomb was thrown through the windows Observing smoke issuing from the bomb, the man ran out of the house just before it exploded and damaged some of the furniture.

On the night of January 4th., the communique continues, a bomb was thrown into the house of Mr. Gottlieb, of the Newhardoff colony near Tireh. The bomb exploded and damaged the roof of the house.

The Haifa correspondent of the J.T.A. adds the following details to the police account of the terrorist acts:

The bomb in the Mishkov house did little damage, probably because the shell was very old. The telephone wire from this quarter to the Jewish quarter of Hadar Hacarmel was cut and one of the telephone poles dislodged. It was thus impossible to get in touch with the police until after 8 the following morning.

Investigations so far appear to show that the footsteps of the bomb-throwers lead to Wadi Roushmieh, to the East of Haifa.

This, together with the outrage in the Gootlieb house, the correspondent continues, has caused great excitement in Haifa, where the acts are believed to be the work of an organised gang.

The first of the four outrages occurred at Yadjur, the Jewish labour settlement near Haifa, to which the victims of the shooting outrage on the Haifa Road last Passover belonged. A British military shell was found there inside one of the huts, but fortunately before it exploded.