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Dec. 2; 1947 Comment;- Jacos has again stolen. Esau's birthright .Isaac the '
U. N.,is blind,Rebecca, whe U. »- ae,has been helping Jacob in his scheming.
bee. 7, Incidents almost daily. boarders begin to leave. Parents; that .in case
the @chools are forced to close, the boys Gan manage themseives , but they
want une girls with them. Families are leaving for the Lebanon »,vyria or

: Dec. 15, sixteen gibls have: left.

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Dee. 30. Bomb explodes at the Damascas gate. One of our girls, living near, sse-
ting on the veranda loses ai eye, being hit by some flying substance.Clash
between Arabs and Jews at suger refinery in Haifa, with «rest loss of life.
Jan. 3 1948. Jaffa belng bombed oy the. dews.Several killed, ever forty wounded.
Jaffe is the old Joppa , an& Arab city. Telaviv, close to it,is « new Jewish
city. = .

Jane 5s Semisamis ,an Arab pension in Jerusalem, bombed} twenty lives, lost.
March 21. Jews cut electric wires . W6é ecannof use radio, have no electric
lights, water must be pumped ov hand. . |

April 8. Fighting and loss of life on the road from Jerusalem to Jaffa. ‘eon
April leTradeedy of Deirvas@en disclosed. Jews wanted position , murdered ee |

inhabitants ,throwing bodies into 4 cistern.iiot discovered for several cays.

april 14. Arab Legion from Trans jordan,British trained, comes to RawAllan.
and occupies Gov't boy*s’ School puilding&,. Palestine , as 1 said had no army.
April 22. Haifa bombec from st. Carmel. Many lives lost. 5 ,

“April ‘30. Tne refugees begin pouring into RamAllah from Jaffa, which is. being

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bombed. It is thirty-five miles all up hill,dJaffa on the coast , RamAllan j
twenty-seven huncred feet asove sea level. Some come in trucks bringing & “4

few things: many walk the tong distance, carrying what they can, throwing away

when they can carry no longer. we housed as-nany-as posetple in OUP. ARE Apc

a vuilding rented fom our silall girls. we had moved them over to the big builc
ing, wuere we had room,since s0 many had left. : 40 5a 3

May.2. It was Gecided to let refugees oce upy the meeting~noise sAoout fifty |
are accomodated in the one room .The long benches are turned up.on end and |
vlankets, sheets or anything availavle thrown over to offer some privavy se ’




way l3.cituation grows more and more tense. Many Arabs have left Jaffa..in the |
Jerusajeum suburbs many have left their besutiful new homes and are crowding

“into the old city within the walls”

day 14 last day of Sritish mandate. Our Boy*s School offers its mein building

‘a5 a hospital for the wounded. A smaller building was already being used 4g

an emergency hospital. . 288

May 20. Almost Ineessant bombing in Jerusalem .«

day 22. Jews ask for truce put refuse to lay cownm arms. | 4

ay 26-28. sowe bombing of RamAllah in the nights. we sleep with bags packed,
bath-roves and slippers close by. At the first shock we collect on first foor
under a vaulted ceiling which seems the safest place. some fifty neighbers
askea@ to sleep in our house . They bring their mattresses anc lay them on
the girl s big dining -room fioor. : Dé os )

say 27Letter from America says that the Jews are getting a huge loan from

U. 3. As and trying to prevent the inelish from loaning to the Arabs.

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Jane 11. Our schools close early .Truee begins. |
July 9,Truce ends, fighting be. 1NnS.

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