In a drastic move to crush Arab terrorism, the military authorities have put all of Palestine except the urban areas under an 11-hour curfew for an indefinite period. The curfew is from six p.m. to five a.m. Local military commanders will regulate curfew in the urban areas.
An Arab police inspector was shot dead today while bicycling near Lydda. Yesterday a Jewish driver, Zev Nager, 44, was shot dead on Mt. Carmel near Haifa, his assailant escaping. Two well-known Americans yesterday narrowly escaped death at the hands of Arab terrorists who attacked a taxi in which they were driving from Jerusalem to the Dead Sea. The Americans were Miss Elsa Ueland, director of Carson College, Philadelphia, and Elias Newman, noted New York artist. Miss Ueland is engaged in geological study here while Mr. Newman is taking films for display at the New York World’s Fair. Midway between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea their taxi was attacked by a band of terrorists. The Jewish chauffeur swung his cab around and sped away under a hail of bullets that struck the taxi but left the occupants unhurt.
Two more Jewish settlements were established today in the Beisan valley, near the Jordan River in central Palestine. The settlements, occupied by two parties of 75 each, are on land purchased by the Jewish National Fund, which recently acquired about 700 acres to complete a belt of Jewish land around the Arab town of Beisan. At the same time, a labor camp was established and fortified four miles southeast of Hanita, on a tract of about 1,000 acres purchases by the Jewish National Fund last October.
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