Six Arab constables were killed today in a clash near Tulkarem as Arab resentment against Britain’s Palestine Partition Commission spread. The clash occurred in Azzun village when a band entered a house where nine constables were billeted. Two more died of their wounds, and the ninth was missing. Rifles and ammunition were stolen. The attacking band also suffered several casualties.
Four Jews were wounded when Arab youths and women, demonstrating at Naharia for release of Arabs held at Acre, stoned a passing Jewish bus. The driver, who is licensed to bear arms, was arrested after firing four shots and wounding an Arab youth.
Heavy attacks occurred at Ayelet Hashachar, Genigar, Safed and Rosh Pina. Four bombs, two of which exploded, were thrown into Rosh Pina, a Jewish colony. No casualties were reported. A police station at Nablus was bombed. Arab bands kidnaped two villagers of Bal-ad-Sheikh and pillaged three villages near Nablus, wounding an Arab woman.
Terrorists fired on a police superintendent in his home in Nablus. He drove off the attackers with a machine-gun. No casualties were reported. Falastin, Christian Arabic daily, published a petition signed by twenty residents of Amman, Transjordan, most of them lawyers, against the Partition Commission.
The commission, which is now in Tel Aviv on a two-week tour of the country, will go to Jaffa tomorrow and on Tuesday to Beersheba in southern Palestine.
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