A JEWISH CONSTABLE, JOSHUA PERLMUTTER, WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED TODAY WHEN ARABS FIRED ON THE JEWISH QUARTER OF SAFED IN A CONTINUATION OF SPORADIC VIOLENCE THAT IS KEEPING TENSION HIGH IN PALESTINE.
SHOTS WERE FIRED AT A JEWISH HOUSE IN ROSH PINA BUT NONE WAS INJURED. A CRUDE BOMB EXPLODED IN A SYNAGOGUE IN THE OLD CITY QUARTER OF JERUSALEM BUT CAUSED NO DAMAGE.
THE GOVERNMENT EXILED FOR ONE YEAR TO THE ACRE CONCENTRATION CAMP SUBHI KHADRA, SECRETARY OF THE ARAB SUPREME COMMITTEE, WHO WAS RELEASED FROM JAIL YESTERDAY WHEN CHARGES OF INCITING TO REVOLT ON WHICH HE HAD BEEN HELD SINCE LAST JUNE COULD NOT BE SUPPORTED BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.
BRITISH POLICE CONFISCATED A RIFLE AND SIXTY BULLETS FOUND DURING A SEARCH OF A JEWISH CHAUFFEUR’S HOME IN THE COLONY OF NESS ZIONA. THE CHAUFFEUR, NAMED MINTZ, WAS ARRESTED AND RELEASED ON BAIL OF $500. HE ASSERTED THE RIFLE AND BULLETS HAD BEEN PLANTED IN HIS HOME BY ENEMIES.
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