British forces tonight pressed punitive measures against Arabs after the attempted assassination of a high Government official had climaxed a day of disorders in which two Arabs were killed and four wounded, and seven Jews were injured.
Four bombs were hurled from the city walls as Edward Keith-Roach, District Commissioner for the Jerusalem area, was motoring near the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum alongside the old city wall, accompanied by two military cars and a police vehicle. two of the bombs exploded, but did no damage.
British troops fired into an Arab mob on the streets of Nablus, killing two and wounding four, when the crowd attacked with pistols, stones and other weapons, enraged at the action of the soldiers in drafting passers-by to remove barricades.
Troops destroyed 25 houses in Majdal and 21 in Lydda in punishment for attacks on troops. Soldiers dynam ting four houses in Nablus were heavily fired upon, prompting the Government to impose curfew from 3:30 p.m. Amin Nueimar, assistant manager of Barclays Bank at Nazareth, was shot and slightly injured.
Four Jewish constables and a colonist were wounded last night when the Ness Ziona settlement was twice attacked. another jew, issachar Goldstein, 29, was shot and seriously wounded near Jerusalem’s Meah Shearim quarter. a 17-year-old Iraqi jew, Ezra Salach, was seriously wounded when shot by snipers near the old post-office on Jerusalem’s Jaffa Road.
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