A ten-year old Jewish girl was wounded in the chest and a Jewish boy was wounded in the leg by an Arab policeman who last night fired into a crowd of quarrelling children, in the Shimon Hatzadik quarter of the city. The policeman was detained by a passing military car for interrogation.
(The Associated Press reported from Jerusalem that approximately 1,000 Arabs and Jews stoned each other in the eastern quarter of Jerusalem last night. A number of persons suffered slight injuries during the fracas and a Jewish girl was accidentally wounded when police fired warning shots into the air to disperse the crowd, the report said.)
The Hebrew press today again raises the issue of the Jerusalem municipal council, which was dissolved by the Palestine Government last year when Jews and Arabs failed to agree on a method of electing the city’s mayor. The papers demand that immediate elections be held for a municipal administration to replace the present Government-appointed board.
According to recent reports the British authorities are inclined to cite the present confused status of Palestine as a reason for delaying return of local self-government to Jerusalem.
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