Curfew Relaxed in Jerusalem; Tel Aviv-Jaffa Border Barricaded

CURFEW RULE WAS RELAXED HERE TODAY AS A MEASURE OF CALM WAS RESTORED AFTER 48 HOURS OF DISORDERS THE LIKE OF WHICH JERUSALEM HAD NOT EXPERIENCED IN EIGHT YEARS. FOUR AND A HALF HOURS WERE CUT FROM THE CURFEW, THE STREETS BEING CLEARED AT 9:30 P.M. INSTEAD OF THE DRASTIC FIVE O’CLOCK RULE IN EFFECT SINCE SUNDAY.

THE AUTHORITIES, MEANWHILE, TOOK EXTRAORDINARY PRECAUTIONS TO PREVENT ARAB-JEWISH CLASHES IN THE VICINITY OF TEL AVIV AND JAFFA. BARBED WIRE BARRICADES WERE ERECTED ON THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE TWO CITIES, WHERE SANGUINARY CLASHES SET OFF THE 1936 DISORDERS, AND HEAVILY-ARMED POLICE PATROLS GUARDED THE AREA. POLICE STATIONS ALONG THE BOUNDARY LINE, CLOSED SINCE LAST YEAR, WERE REOPENED.

SPREADING VIOLENCE IN OTHER SECTIONS OF THE COUNTRY RAISED THE THREE-DAY DEATH TOLL TO ELEVEN. TWO ARAB TERRORISTS WERE KILLED AND A BRITISH SOLDIER WOUNDED IN A SHARP CLASH BETWEEN AN ARAB BAND AND A MILITARY PATROL NEAR THE VILLAGE OF SHAFRAM IN NORTHERN PALESTINE. AN ARAB PLAIN CLOTHES CONSTABLE WAS SHOT DEAD NEAR THE POLICE STATION AT ACRE.

ANOTHER OF THE ARABS WOUNDED IN SUNDAY’S DISORDERS IN JERUSALEM DIED LAST NIGHT, ADDING TO A TOLL OF SIX ARABS AND ONE JEW KILLED SUNDAY.

A JEWISH SCHOOLBOY, MOSHE ABRAMOV, WHO WAS SEEN ENTERING AN ARAB ORANGE GROVE NEAR TEL AVIV, WAS FEARED TO HAVE MET WITH VIOLENCE. SEARCHES BY POLICE AND FIREMEN, AIDED BY SEARCHLIGHTS, HAVE BEEN FRUITLESS.

THE GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED THAT AFTER SUNDAY’S CLASHES IT INVOKED EMERGENCY REGULATIONS TO ARREST 45 JEWS IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE COUNTRY–MEMBERS OF THE ZIONIST-REVISIONIST ORGANIZATION — OF WHOM 24 WERE ADMINISTRATIVELY SENTENCED TO TERMS AT THE ACRE CONCENTRATION CAMP AND 21 REMOVED TO THE TOWN OF ACRE WHERE THEY WILL BE PLACED UNDER POLICE SUPERVISION. LATER, EIGHT MORE REVISIONISTS WERE ARRESTED AT REHOVOTH AND FIVE AT HAIFA, INCLUDING A HEBREW TECHNICUM TEACHER. THEY WERE SENTENCED TO THREE-MONTH TERMS AT ACRE.

THOSE SENTENCED TO THE CONCENTRATION CAMP HAVE NOT YET BEEN TAKEN AWAY BECAUSE OF OVERCROWDED CONDITIONS THERE. THEY WILL BE HELD IN JERUSALEM OVER NEXT WEEKEND UNLESS ROOM IS PROVIDED BY EXPECTED RELEASE OF 50 ARABS ON NOV. 19. IN THE GROUP IS ERI JABOTINSKY, SON OF VLADIMIR JABOTINSKY, WORLD REVISIONIST LEADER WHO IS BARRED FROM PALESTINE.

IT WAS ANNOUNCED THAT ALL REVISIONIST YOUTHS UNDER 18 WOULD BE RELEASED DURING THE DAY.

YEDIDIA LOCK, HUNGARIAN JEW, WAS REMANDED FOR A FORTNIGHT ON A CHARGE OF PREMEDITATED MURDER OF TWO ARABS IN THE BETH ISRAEL QUARTER ON SUNDAY.

IN ADDITION TO PUNITIVE MEASURES ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY, TWENTY EXTRA POLICEMEN WERE STATIONED IN THE REHAVIA SUBURB FOR PATROL PURPOSES AT THE RESIDENTS’ EXPENSE. ARAB NEWSPAPERS EXPRESSED GRATIFICATION AT THE MEASURES TAKEN AGAINST JEWS.

THE MEASURES WERE UNDERSTOOD TO HAVE BEEN TAKEN AS RESULT OF A VISIT TO WILLIAM D. BATTERSHILL, ACTING HIGH COMMISSIONER, OF A DELEGATION OF ARAB LEADERS WHO DEMANDED THAT NO DISCRIMINATION BETWEEN ARABS AND JEWS BE PERMITTED IN PENALTIES.

THE DELEGATION ALSO DEMANDED DISARMING OF JEWS AND STRONG ACTION AGAINST "JEWISH ASSAILANTS." MEMBERS OF THE GROUP WERE RASHER BEY NASHASHIBI, EX-MAYOR OF JERUSALEM; YACOUB FARAJ AND DR. ELIAS MOGHANNEM, ALL LEADERS OF THE MODERATE PALESTINE DEFENSE PARTY.

JEWISH LEADERS, INCLUDING MOSHE SHERTOK AND ISAAC BEN ZVI, REPRESENTATING RESPECTIVELY THE JEWISH AGENCY FOR PALESTINE AND THE JEWISH NATIONAL COUNCIL, ALSO CONFERRED WITH MR. BATTERSHILL.

MAYOR ISRAEL ROKACH OF TEL AVIV HEADED A DELEGATION OF COLONISTS IN THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT WHO CALLED ON THE DISTRICT COMMISSIONER AND STRONGLY PROTESTED THE ARRESTS OF REVISIONISTS, AMONG WHOM THEY SAID WERE "INACTIVE ORANGE GROWERS, INDUSTRIALISTS, AGRICULTURISTS AS WELL AS BOYS OF FOURTEEN." THE DELEGATION DECLARED THE COLONIES HAD HITHERTO BEEN AMONG THE QUIETEST BUT THAT THE ARRESTS HAD CREATED TENSION IN THE DISTRICT.

ARABS MADE A DARING ATTEMPT TO STEAL THE RIFLE OF AN ARAB SPECIAL POLICEMAN IN BROAD DAYLIGHT IN THE CENTER OF JERUSALEM, BUT WERE DRIVEN OFF BY A POLICEMAN WHO FIRED AT THEM FROM A DISTANCE.