Custom officials in Baghdad have discovered a $50,000 consignment of Belgian-made arms destined for Palestine Arab bands. In Beirut, Syrian warriors met with Sheikh Mohammed Ashmar, former head of Palestine bands, presiding, and decided to support the Syrian Arab bands operating in the Holy land.
Terrorists burned down a wooden railway bridge between Kalkillia and Tulkarem which had been erected to replace a previously dynamited stock bridge. Traffic was suspended.
Mrs. Rose Jacobs, New York women’s Zionist leader who came to Palestine last Fall to serve as member of the Jewish Agency executive committee, left for the United States for a six-month stay. At the same time, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency, left for London.
Before departing, Dr.Weizmann visited northern Palestine to see the barbed-wire barricade that is being erected there to combat entry of terrorists into Palestine. The construction project was visited earlier by High Commissioner Sir Harold Alfred MacMichael.
Five Jews who arrived in a sailboat from Egypt were arrested near Jaffa as illegal immigrants.
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