Three British constables and an Arab detective were slain today in fresh outbreaks of anti-Government and anti-Jewish violence marking the Arab general strike against Jewish immigration.
The constables were killed in a clash with an Arab band near Rosh Pina. The detective was killed by unidentified persons as he walked in Jerusalem’s old city.
Ten Arab casualties were reported in a sharp engagement with troops and a squadron of planes near Nahariya. The planes joined the action when an Arab band attacked a police convoy. Two Palestine constables were wounded by Arab bullets and a third when the car in which they were riding overturned.
Troops demolished a house at Anabta, near which a section of the road had been mined by Arabs.
Arab marauders during the night uprooted 3,000 orange trees at Majdal.
SECRECY VEILS WAUCHOPE PARLEY WITH ARAB LEADERS
An atmosphere of secrecy shrouded an all-morning conference between High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope and two Arab leaders, former Jerusalem mayor Ragheb bey Nashashibi, and Auni bey Abdul Hadi, leader of the extremist Istiqlalist party who was recently released from the Government concentration camp at Sarafend.
The conference followed shortly after an interview between the High Commissioner and the Grand Mufti, Haj Amin el Husseini, in which the latter is reported to have been told that new elections were necessary for the Moslem Supreme Council, highest Arab religious body of which the Grand Mufti is president. Informed circles interpreted this as a warning to the Grand Mufti to discontinue his activities on the Arab Supreme Committee which is directing the sanguinary 21-week-old general strike.
To prevent a leakage, Sir Arthur barred an Arab interpreter at the all-morning conference with the two Arab leaders, using instead an English official from the Transjordan.
Meanwhile, a meeting of the Arab Supreme Committee to discuss the latest developments in the turbulent Palestine situation adjourned until the conclusion of Sir Arthur’s conversations with Nashashibi and Abdul Hadi.
A stir was created in Jerusalem by charges that Arabs had made certain changes in the neighborhood of the Wailing Wall despite the decisions of Wailing Wall Commission, adopted following the 1929 anti-Jewish riots.
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