British military forces today drew their net tighter around hills in the vicinity of Nablus and Beisan in a determined drive to clean up nests of Arab brigands.
Strong detachments, fully equipped and led by special guides, pressed a thorough search of the rebel-infested area, from which recent disastrous anti-Jewish and anti-Government forays have been launched.
At the same time, the Government continued to enforce drastic measures against agitators, seizing 15 Arab leaders in Jaffa and exiling them to Sarafand.
Thirteen British warships are at anchor at Haifa.
Nahum Guttman, 22-year-old Jewish colonist, died this morning in Hadassah Hospital at Tel Aviv of self-inflicted wounds incurred during an Arab midnight attack on a cooperative settlement in the colony of Ness Zionah. He is the forty-second Jewish victim of the disorders; now in their eleventh week. His death is officially attributed to his unauthorized use of a revolver during defense of the settlement.
Two Jewish special policemen arrested an Arab carrying a Mills bomb in the vicinity of a stone crushing machine near Giveat Shaul in Jerusalem.
Two Arabs were arrested between Ras-el-Ein and Kalkillia with rifles and ammunition in their possession.
Several bombs exploded in Nablus. Shots were fired into a military encampment, a sports club and the post office in the same town.
The village of Taile, near Beisan, was fired and paid twenty sacks of wheat for cutting telephone wires in the neighborhood.
A mill owned by four Arabs and one Jew was burned to the ground in the Salameh quarter of Jaffa. Arabs burned a packing shed in the village of Kaliba and uprooted 800 trees from Jewish-owned groves near Afuleh.
Demolition of the old city of Jaffa continued today, necessitating adjournment of court sessions, the dynamiting smashing windows in the court and endangering the building.
The Arab National Committee at Acre is reported to have cabled to W. Gallacher, Communist member of parliament, thanking him for championing the Arab cause in the House of Commons.
Newspapers reported that 64 Arabs have been killed in recent military operations in the hills.
Planes are continuing to scatter leaflets addressed to Arabs, advising them to discontinue the disturbances and pointing out that the poor always lost by them while the wealthy continued to live contentedly in the cities without risking their livelihood.
El Adifaa, Arab daily, bitterly complains against the “crowned heads of Islam” who, it charges, are failing to raise their voices in behalf of the Palestine Arabs.
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