Low flying planes of the Royal Flying Corps today scattered crowds of Bedouins, nomadic Arab tribesmen, marching towards Tulkarem and Wadi Hawareth, the latter a territory of the Jewish National Fund. The Bedouins had intended to join in a demonstration against Jewish immigration into Palestine.
Other disorders of a minor nature took place late last night when unknown snipers fired ten shots into the British police camp on Mt. Scopus. No casualties resulted.
It was reliably learned that the Grand Mufti, Moslem spiritual head
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