British troops today killed three Arabs and captured a fourth in a clash near Tulkarem. Two soldiers were slightly wounded. One of the slain Arabs was the secretary of a rebel chieftain, Abu Bakr. Important documents were seized.
The village of Samekh was put under 24-hour curfew when Arabs fired upon Jewish special policemen. Menashe Bornstein, 50, died yesterday of wounds inflicted by an Arab on May 16. A Palestine native, he left a widow and six children. Jewish municipal councillors of Haifa declined an invitation by Mayor Hassan Shukri to attend a reception to High Commissioner Sir Harold Alfred MacMichael. Students of the Hebrew Technical College at Haifa called off a sit-down strike they launched last week as a move to impress upon the Jewish Agency the need for a more active policy in combating the White Paper. Revisionists, however, continued the strike.
The name of the Jew slain by Arabs in Jerusalem Friday was incorrectly given as Ernest Behar. The victim was Marcus Anzbacher, member of a rabbinical family of Nuremberg, Germany. He had come to Palestine from the Dachu concentration camp.
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