An Arab and two Arab boys were killed today and four persons injured, two of them seriously, in a bomb explosion near the Central Prison of Jerusalem. An unconfirmed report said a Jew was detained in connection with the bombing.
The Jewish death toll in 22-week-old disorders reached 86 when British soldiers, searching a forest of the Palestine Colonization Association near Tiberias, found Haieh Dehan with his skull crushed.
Another Jew, Itzah Slutzki, 59 years old, was gravely wounded this morning in an ambush.
The Arab Supreme Committee, meeting to consider continuation of the general strike against the Jews and the Government, took no decision.
Arab orange growers, in an ultimatum to the committee, demanded liquidation of the strike, according to the Hebrew daily, Haaretz.
The committee denied a report published in London that it was sending a delegation to London coincident with the convening of Parliament, and that it had called upon Iraq and Persia to press the Arab case before the League of Nations and the Hague Tribunal.
A Government communique today revealed that 1,646 Arabs and 218 Jews have been convicted on charges arising from the disorders. Acquittals totalled 710 Arabs and 71 Jews. Cases yet to be heard include 287 Arabs and 57 Jews.
GEN. DILL DEPLOYS TROOPS
Lieut. Gen. John Greer Dill, commander-in-chief of all British military forces in Palestine, made preparations at Haifa meanwhile for the debarkation there tomorrow morning of 2,800 soldiers, one of the first contingents of troop reinforcements to arrive from England.
A contingent of the British Royal Army Corps, part of the 15,000 reinforcements ordered to Palestine, and several pieces of ordnance of the 20th Royal Artillery Brigade arrived here today.
Gen, Dill announced that the troops under his direction will be deployed as follows:
First Brigade of infantry, Jerusalem region (Third Battalion Cold-stream Guards; Second Battalion Scots Guards; Second Battalion West Yorkshire; Second Battalion Cameron Highlanders.)
Second Brigade of infantry, Jaffa region, (Second Battalion East Yorkshire; Second Battalion Kings Royal; Second Battalion Wiltshire; Eighth Regiment Hussars.)
Third Brigade of infantry, Jerusalem region, (Second Battalion Royal Northumberland Fusiliers; Second Battalion Cameron Fusiliers; Second Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers.)
The units of the Fifth Division with general headquarters at Haifa are apportioned as follows:
Third Brigade infantry, Nazareth region, (First Battalion Kings Own Scottish and Border Guards; Second Battalion Hampshire Regulars; First Battalion Yorkshire and Lancashire Regulars; Transjordan Frontier forces.)
Fifteenth Brigade, Haifa region, (Second Battalion Regulars, “The Buffs”; First Battalion, Loyal Regiment,; Second Battalion North Staffordshire; First Battalion Seaforth Highlanders.)
Sixteenth Brigade, Nablus region, (Second Battalion Lincolnshire Regulars; Second Battalion Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regulars; Second Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers; Second Battalion Dorsetshire.)
Safeguarding of railroads will be maintained by the Second Battalion, Cheshire Regulars, and Second Battalion, South Wales Border Guards.
Aviation forces will be commanded by R. M. Hill, at general headquarters, Jerusalem.
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