An Arab was hanged at Acre today for possession of arms while disorders, renewed yesterday after a two day period of calm, continued in various parts of Palestine. The Arab, Ibrahim Khassan Nassar, who was sentenced by a military court on Dec. 22, is the second to die on the gallows for violation of the emergency regulations.
The Nazareth military tribunal sentenced a Bedouin to life imprisonment for possession of arms and ammunition. Meanwhile, Major-General Wavell confirmed the death sentence of Fadul Suleiman Machmud for possessing arms.
A train wreck was narrowly averted when a military trolley preceding a passenger train was overturned by an iron bar placed across the tracks at Affuleh. An unexploded land mine was found near the tracks. There were no casualties. An Arab band attacked a police patrol near Hebron. The pipeline of the Iraq Petroleum Company at Genigar was again puncture by marauders and the escaping oil ignited.
A high barbed wire barricade has been thrown around the military camp at Jaffa to prevent bomb attacks.
El Jamia Al Islamia, Arab daily, demands editorially establishment of an elected Arab delegation to appear before the new Palestine commission being sent by Britain to map a concrete partition scheme.
The extremist Arab daily, al Liwaa, resumed publication yesterday after four months’ suspension, and immediately published an editorial praising exiled Arab leaders, declaring Government measures could not banish leaders of the people from their hearts. Al Liwaa also reports that oil borings in Beersheba had failed.
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