SPORADIC DISORDERS CONTINUED TODAY AS BRITISH TROOPS AND PLANES PRESSED SEARCHES FOR ARAB BANDS IN VARIOUS PARTS OF PALESTINE. MILITARY CARS AND TROOPS WERE FIRED UPON, WITHOUT CASUALTIES, NEAR TULKAREM AND NABLUS. THREE ARAB PASSENGERS WERE WOUNDED SLIGHTLY WHEN AN ARAB BUS WAS SHOT AT NEAR TULKAREM.
THREE THOUSAND ARABS WERE REPORTED TO HAVE ATTENDED FUNERAL SERVICES IN A FIELD NEAR SAFED FOR ARAB REBELS SLAIN IN THE ENGAGEMENT NEAR ARRABA. THE ARAB POPULATION HELD A ONE-DAY STRIKE YESTERDAY WHEN THE AUTHORITIES REFUSED TO PERMIT PUBLIC SERVICES IN SAFED.
AN ARAB WAS ARRESTED NEAR THE KING DAVID HOTEL IN JERUSALEM AND WILL BE TRIED BY THE MILITARY COURT FOR POSSESSION OF A REVOLVER. MAJOR-GENERAL A.P. WAVELL, BRITISH COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, REDUCED FROM LIFE TO FIVE YEARS EACH THE SENTENCES OF TWO NABLUS ARABS AND FREED FIVE OTHERS TRIED BY THE NABLUS MILITARY COURT DEC. 20 FOR POSSESSION OF ARMS.
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