Confinement in concentration camps of five important Arab leaders created a great impression tonight and led Mayor Hussein Khalidi of Jerusalem to postpone a scheduled municipal strike.
Auni Bey Abdul Hadi, chief instigator of the strike of Arab Government officials, was arrested while attending a meeting of the Supreme Arab Committee. Simultaneously, Fakhri Bey Nashashibi and three other Jerusalem Arabs were sent to concentration camps.
Because of his advanced age, Assem Bey Said, mayor of Jaffa, was not sent to a concentration camp, but exiled to Sarafend, where new camps have been established.
Mayor Khalidi postponed his scheduled departure to London with an unofficial Arab delegation. A conference of Arab mayors scheduled for today was called off because the mayors feared arrests.
After a British administrator took over the duties of the striking Arab mayor of Nablus, the town hall was bombed today. No casualties were reported. Nablus police were fired at but no one was injured.
Heavy machine-gun firing went on all evening at Lifta where soldiers surrounded Arabs who had fled there after attacking five Jewish busses at Motza. Injuries suffered by Giza Meizel, a Jewish sales-girl, during the attack were serious, an official communique tonight said. It was unofficially reported that a British soldier was wounded in a clash with snipers.
At Mesha, 3,000 trees were uprooted. A railway was damaged at Khanyunis.
Despite the disturbances, 220 Jewish immigrants arrived on the Polonia.
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