Ten Arabs and a British constable were killed today and another constable slightly wounded in engagements near Nablus.
A bitter battle on a seven-mile front in the Nablus hills was in progress since yesterday evening. Troops in lorries, armored cars, war tanks, a battery of three guns and three army planes were sent to reinforce soldiers fighting Arab bands numbering 200 strong.
Thirty-seven lorries, fifteen armored cars and four tanks were sent in all.
The British constable and three Arabs were killed in a battle near Nablus after bandits had resisted efforts by troops to capture them alive. The soldiers, seeking the rebels for committing acts of sabotage, surrounded a hill to which they fled. Large supplies of arms and munitions were seized after the battle.
The constable, Christopher John Wren, was the ninth victim among British forces in disorders since April 19.
One Arab was gravely wounded when troops engaged a band which had fired on them at Bala near Tulkarem. The injured Arab said he had been forced to join the band after paying $125 to its leaders. Aircraft continued the battle, inflicting several casualties.
A bomb hurled into a Jewish house on the outskirts of Tel Aviv injured three persons, including a four-year-old girl and a laborer, Eliyahu Kaplansky, 25, of Poland. All were taken to Hadassah hospital.
A Mills bomb was discovered under the fez of one of three Arabs after they had been permitted to pass through a barbed wire barricade to the all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv. The three were arrested.
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