War planes, troops and helmeted police pressed an intensive search today for the Arab bandits who yesterday murdered James Leslie Starkey, noted British archaeologist, in cold blood near Hebron. a police patrol of 20 encountered a strong band near the scene of the slaying and exchanged fire.
(The Havas News Agency reported that troops and police picked up the trail of the bandits. Bloodhounds traced the fleeing assassins to the village of Tharas Near Hebron where, after a thorough search of all houses in the village, a revolver from which four cartridges had been fired was discovered in the home of one of the villagers. The owner was immediately placed under arrest, Havas said.)
Mr. Starkey was buried here this morning, with high Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope, Government officials, consuls and members of the Jewish Agency for Palestine participating in the services while planes circled overhead.
An Arab band of 200 was located in the vicinity of Haifa, in northern Palestine, and detachments of steel-helmeted police, troops and planes were rushed to the spot.
A bus carrying schoolchildren from the Old City to the new section of Jerusalem was fired upon near the Jaffa Gate. There were no casualties. A bomb thrown at a bus en route to Haifa went through the vehicle, landed on the other side and exploded. Several passengers were slightly injured.
The hanging of two Arabs for the murder of a Jew last February, scheduled for today at Acre, was postponed until next week.
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