British troops today killed four Arabs and wounded one in a clash near Anabta with a rebel band of undetermined strength. No British casualties were reported.
One member of the Royal Air Force stationed here was fatally wounded, and another injured by an Arab who fired a reviver at them near the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum. The assailant escaped.
The Jewish death toll in seventeen weeks of disorders rose to 56 today with the death at Haifa this morning of Josef Kaleb, 20, a Sephardic Jew, who was wounded August 1.
A Jewish peddler, Eliahu Gerson, 24, was seriously injured in Haifa by stones thrown by an Arab.
Police caught two Arabs from Lifta with bombs in their possession after Jews on rooftops had seen them escaping. Shooting occurred during the day in Jerusalem.
Arabs damaged a pipeline of the Iraq Petroleum Company near Beisan and set fire to the escaping oil.
A number of Arabs were arrested in Haifa this morning for intimidating workers to join the general strike against Jewish immigration, sale of land to Jews and for institution of an Arab national government. The situation in the Mediterranean seaport continued grave. Some Arab Government employes and railway workshop laborers have already gone on strike.
Arab rebels launched a strong attack on a bridge between Petach Tikvah and Magdiel, but were beaten off by watchmen.
Shots were fired on the outskirts of Jerusalem, at Gedera, and Delhamia. A bomb exploded in an Arab house in Jaffa, injuring the owner.
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