Two Jews and two Arabs were killed today and a British soldier wounded as Arab disorders entered their sixteenth week.
Police Inspector Achmed Naif was shot dead this morning in Haifa while walking in the city square. An Arab constable accompanying him was seriously injured. The assailant escaped.
A Sephardic Jew, Josef Kaleb, 21, was shot by an Arab and seriously wounded in Haifa yesterday while taking a Sabbath walk. His assailant escaped.
An Arab was killed, another injured and a British soldier wounded in a clash between a band of rebels and a military detachment.
Yehoash Zoller, 22, and Itzhack Klishevsky, 23, Polish Jewish special guards, were found dead of bullet wounds at a watchman’s hut in Yoknear. The head of one was mutilated by a dumdum bullet. They had gone out last night for an inspection tour of the neighborhood.
Secret transfer of sums of money from Shaki Barslan, Syrian Arab leader, to the Palestine Arabs was revealed when receipts and vouchers were found on Abu Zaid, of Beirut, who was arrested here.
A British soldier was seriously wounded and four others slightly injured yesterday by Arab snipers on the road to Kfar Yelodim. The town of Safad was fired on, but no casualties were reported. Three bombs exploded at Beit Vegan near Tel Aviv.
Curfew from 6:30 p.m. to 4 a.m. was proclaimed on the area 200 meters on either side of petroleum pipe lines after a band of Arabs had set fire to oil escaping from a damaged Iraq Petroleum Co. pipe two miles from the banks of the Jordan River. They escaped to Transjordan.
An official communique denied reports in local newspapers that Jewish constables in Tiberias — which was swept last week by three days of disorders — had been disarmed while Arabs were given arms. The communique also denied that the assistant superintendent at Beersheba, Ronald Broadhurst, had been photographed with Arabs stoning Jews.
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