Four British constables, one officer and one Arab were injured today in a clash at Nazareth between police and Arab demonstrators.
At Safed, a military unit was forced to fire a volley into the air to prevent demonstrators from invading the Jewish quarter of that city.
Nineteen Arabs were arrested at Haifa for resisting the police and forcing Arab merchants to close their shops in observance of the general strike against Jewish immigration and sale of land to Jews. The group was immediately tried and sentenced to jail terms ranging to six months.
Jewish-owned fields in the colony of Mishmar-ha-Emek were set on fire. The blaze was extinguished by British patrols.
In the neighborhood of Beisan, three Arabs were arrested for attempting to burglarize Jewish colonies. Shots were fired by Arabs at orange groves of Tel Litwinsky, near Petach Tikvah. No casualties were reported.
Sir Michael McDonnel, Chief Justice of Palestine, was reported slightly injured when Arabs early this morning attacked his car on the Haifa-Jerusalem road, apparently mistaking him for a Jew.
A transport of vegetables consigned to a Jaffa firm was destroyed by Arabs at Gaza.
Today’s official communique reported the situation generally quiet.
FIRST JAFFA JEWS RETURN TO POSTS
It was learned that Jewish officials of the Treasury Department’s Jaffa offices, together with Jewish employes of the Anglo-Palestine Bank’s branch at Jaffa, returned to work today. The first Jews to return since the outbreaks began, they were reported given special protection.
The trial of six Jewish youths on charges of participating in the Tel Aviv demonstration of April 17 opened in Jaffa Magistrates Court and was adjourned until tomorrow after brief formalities.
Haaretz, Hebrew daily, reported that at a conference of Jewish transport companies a resolution was adopted demanding the Government pay indemnities for the loss of Jewish lives and property. The demand was based on the contention that inadequate protection was afforded.
The Arab National Committee, formed Saturday to press the general strike, today decided to telegraph an appeal to the rulers of all Arab states to support the demands of the Palestine Arabs.
CURFEW LIFTED IN JAFFA, TEL AVIV
Yesterday curfew was lifted in Jaffa and Tel Aviv, except in the Keren Hatemanim and Manshieh quarters.
At Safed Arabs yesterday made an attempt to demonstrate but were dispersed by police. A Jewish bus was attacked at Motza, near Jerusalem. Its tires were slashed, but passengers escaped injury.
Other developments yesterday were:
Telephone wires leading to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem were cut by Arabs, as also were all wires between Jerusalem and Jericho.
An orange grove near Tel Aviv was set on fire and a Jewish-owned truck at Jenin was destroyed by flames.
Meanwhile a definite attempt to put the all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv in a state of blockade was made by the Arab National Strike Committee which was organized Saturday. The committee issued an appeal to Arab exporters in Cairo, Damascus and Baghdad not to send foodstuffs to Tel Aviv.
At the same time the committee opened negotiations with Arab Government officials to join in the general strike.
Moshe Shertok, member of the executive of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, called on High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope. Accompanied by the Agency’s legal adviser, Bernard Josef, Mr. Shertok asked that security be guaranteed and emphasized that the Arab agitation in the Valley of Jezrael was assuming a dangerous character.
Another Jewish delegation, consisting of Dov Hoz and I. Idelson, of the Tel Aviv council, appeared before Sir Arthur and asked measures be taken to aid the transport from Jaffa harbor to Tel Aviv of merchandise consigned to the Levant Fair which opens at Tel Aviv on Thursday.
Two persons arrested at Tul Karem for participating in Saturday’s unlawful assembly and wounding Government officers were sentenced to three years imprisonment each, according to an official communique. Eleven others of those arrested are being tried.
The communique reported that seventeen Jews and eleven Arabs continued under treatment in Tel Aviv and Jaffa hospitals for wounds received during the disorders.
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