Nine p.m. curfew invoked by the Government in Jerusalem last night after a Jew was shot was cancelled today, but police and troops stood by in various parts of the country to preserve order as new violence was reported.
Traffic between Tel Aviv and Jaffa after six p.m. was suspended and barbed wire barricades separated the two cities. Gatherings of Jews and Arabs on the respective borders were dispersed by police. Most shops in Jaffa were closed.
Arabs demonstrating in Haifa demanding employment at the harbor were dispersed. Four Arabs preparing bombs in the port city were seriously injured when the explosives went off prematurely.
An Arab was killed– the second in two days — by two Arabs who entered his home between Ramat Sharon and Abukishek and shot him.
A crowd of Arabs attempted to halt a Jewish taxi on the Jerusalem-Jaffa road. The driver speeded up and broke through the crowd, injuring two Arabs.
The Jew, Yehuda Leib Schneersohn, 42, was seriously wounded by Arabs as he walked along the Street of the Chain on route to the Wailing Wall. It was revealed that he had narrowly escaped death in the Hebron massacre of 1929.
Other incidents were reported both in the Jerusalem area and in outlying districts of Palestine. An Arab shot and seriously wounded Polish Catholic named Slugo after having asked him for oranges as he worked in a Jewish grove near Ness Ziona.
In the Neve Shaanan quarter of Jerusalem, Arabs stoned Jews as they strolled in the streets, slightly wounding one.
One Arab was killed and another wounded in an open field behind the Jewish colony of Rehavia.
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