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March 1, 1948

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30 BRITISH SOLDIERS DIE IN PALESTINE AS MINES RIP TRAIN; Dozens Are Injured in 3 Cars of Express From Cairo -- 4th Group Saved by Dud STERN BAND CLAIMS DEED Troops Again Patrol Tel Aviv -- 6 Haganah Men Slain Invading Arab Village 30 BRITONS KILLED PALESTINE BLAST VIOLENCE CONTINUES TO ERUPT IN PALESTINE

By Sam Pope Brewerspecial To the New York Times

JERUSALEM, Feb. 29 -- Twenty-eight British soldiers were killed when three cars on a Cairo-to-Haifa train were blown up by land mines near Rehovoth, south of Tel Aviv, today. Two of thirty-five men detained in a hospital died later, and it was feared that the final death toll might be heavier.

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