The mixed Israel-Transjordan armistice commission met here last night and cleared up a dozen minor complaints of alleged border violations by both states. The commission, whose session was attended by Brig. Gen. William E. Riley, U.N. chief of staff in Palestine, still has another dozen such sases on its agenda.
Authorized sources today denied a report that the large number of complaints were cleared from the agenda in order to make way for early consideration of the major important questions still to be settled by the body–access to Mt. Scopus and the Bethlehem Road. Informed quarters here maintain that the growing number of attacks on and ambushes of Jewish soldiers and civilians in border areas is the work of young Arab refugee gangs organized by the followers of the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem.
It was revealed here that a jeep carrying military personnel returning from a meeting of the mixed armistice commission last week struck a landmine near Beit Jibrin, in Israel territory. An officer and four enlisted men were wounded in the blast. It is believed that the mine was planted by Arabs during a recent investigation of another border incident in the same neighborhood. At that time, representatives of Israel, Transjordan and the U.N. were conducting an inquiry at the request of the Jewish state.
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