Ambuscades, sniping and bomb attacks marked continuing disorders today as two troop ships carrying reinforcements for the British garrison in Palestine dropped anchor in Haifa. Five Jews and three Arabs were wounded.
David Gross, a Jewish policeman, was shot and seriously wounded in Safed. His assailants escaped. Snipers seriously wounded Zvi Kopf, 40, an immigrant from Poland, near the Jewish colony of Ness Ziona. Three Jewish passengers were wounded in sniping and stone attacks on traffic passing through the arab town of Ramleh.
Jewish fishermen and supernumeraries wounded two Arabs in warding off an attack on Lake Huleh. An Arab police officer was wounded and his revolver taken in an attack this morning outside of the Bethlehem police station.
Terrorists dynamited a number of bridges on the Jerusalem-Jericho road, making it impassable in several places. A bomb was thrown into the garden of jerusalem’s newly inducted Arab mayor, Mustopha Bey Khalidi, in his German colony home here. No damage was reported. Eleven polo horses were stolen from the Sarafand Polo Club.
Acting on information that Arab bands were planning to raid Jaffa courts in search of cash, President Cressal of the Assize Court ordered all magistrates’ courts in the Arab city closed. Armored cars are being used to carry all mail between Jaffa and Tel Aviv.
A small band walked in to Jaffa’s custom house, stole 400 in cash and made off in a taxicab. A band raided the Beisan railway station, held up the stationmaster and stole 26, after which they set fire to the building.
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