An Arab described by the authorities as one of the most active instigators of disorders in Jaffa was killed today during an engagement between rebels and troops near Arza.
Local strike committees today delivered to Palestine district commissioners in various parts of the Holy Land their decision to continue the 22-week-old Arab general strike against Jewish immigration and sale of land to Jews. The committees declared, however, a final decision on the question would be taken by the Arab Supreme Committee at its meeting Saturday.
Continued Arab violence ushered in the Jewish New Year in various parts of the Holy Land.
A bomb exploded near the Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem, but caused no damage. A Jew’s shop near Zion Square, in the center of Jerusalem, was set afire.
A bomb, hurled at a Jew on his way to a synagogue in Jerusalem, exploded harmlessly.
Arab bullets slightly wounded a Royal Air Force man named Findlay at Ramleh.
A section of the Iraq Petroleum Company’s pipeline at Beisan was again damaged by rebels, marking the thirty-second incident of the kind.
Palestine Potash Company employes were fired on at Sejera, Gan Yavne and Kfar Etzion.
Firemen battling flames of a Jewish-owned shed, which had been set on fire by Arabs in the Shapiro quarter of Jaffa, were fired on by snipers.
Troops demolished an Arab house at Wad Kabani and four Arab tents at Wadi Hawarith from which shots had been fired at them.
Syrian police battled a band of Arabs on Syrian territory, near Jisr B’not Yacob, when they attempted to invade Palestine to join the guerilla campaign being waged by their co-religionists.
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