THE NEWLY-CREATED MILITARY TRIBUNAL HERE TODAY SENTENCED AN ARAB, SALIM IBN SALIM OF RAMLEH, TO FIVE YEARS IN PRISON FOR POSSESSION OF FIREARMS, SAME CRIME FOR WHICH THE HAIFA ARMY COURT LAST WEEK, IN THE FIRST SUCH TRIAL, SENTENCED SHEIKH FARHAN ESSADI, ARAB TERRORIST CHIEF, TO HANGING.
MEANWHILE, SPORADIC ARAB TERRORISM CONTINUED, MARKED TODAY BY ANOTHER ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF THE ARAB MAYOR OF TULKAREM. SHOTS FIRED INTO HIS HOME WOUNDED AN ARAB GUEST. POLICE WHO SHOT AT A SUSPECT WERE FIRED UPON FROM AMBUSH.
A BRITISH POLICE SERGEANT AND TWO CONSTABLES WERE REPORTED BY THE HEBREW DAILY HABOKER MISSING AFTER YESTERDAY’S ENCOUNTER BETWEEN A POLICE PATROL AND AN ARAB BAND OF 100 ON THE ACRE-SAFED ROAD, SCENE OF A BUS ATTACK IN WHICH THREE JEWS WERE WOUNDED. POLICE REINFORCEMENTS AND FOUR ROYAL AIR FORCE PLANES WERE DISPATCHED TO HUNT FOR THE MISSING MEN.
HIGH COMMISSIONER WAUCHOPE CONFERRED THIS MORNING WITH MOSHE SHERTOK, HEAD OF THE JEWISH AGENCY’S POLITICAL DEPARTMENT, ON THE CONTINUING TERRORISM.
THE ARAB NEWSPAPER AL JAMIA EL ISLAMIA REPORTED FROM AMMAN THAT THE TRANSJORDAN GOVERNMENT HAD REVEALED PLOTTERS AGAINST THE REGIME OF EMIR ABDULLAH HAD RECEIVED ABOUT $3,500 FROM AN UNNAMED FOREIGN POWER TO START A REVOLT.
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