Yousef Abu Dura, notorious Arab band leader, was reported today to have been captured by members of the Transjordan Frontier Force in attempting to cross the border into Palestine. The Arab chieftain, accused of numerous terrorist attacks in the Samaria region during the past two years, was said to have been seized after a clash between a detachment of the Frontier Force and an Arab band in a small village east of Beisan.
Abu Dura was recently reported to have fled from Palestine to Syria, but he apparently was returning to resume his leadership of a terrorist band.
Jews thronging the ancient Wailing Wall, tradition-hallowed remnant of the Jerusalem Temple, to observe Tisha B’Av, marking the destruction of the Temple, were searched for arms before being permitted to enter or leave the Jaffa Gate. Some 5,000 Jews were on hand for the prayers, thronging the narrow and heavily-policed lanes. Among those in the procession were Isaac Ben-Zvi, president of the Jewish National Council, and Moshe Shertok, head of the Jewish Agency’s political department.
The seven year prison sentence of Bernard Teitler, 26-year-old student of the Hebrew University, for having explosives in his possession was confirmed by Major-General Robert H. Haining, General Officer in Command of British forces in Palestine.
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