One of Palestine’s highest Moslem dignitaries, Aefynis el Husseini, 60-year-old Sheikh of Haram-Es-Sherif and cousin of the exiled ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, was fired upon and seriously wounded today near a mosque in Jerusalem’s old City quarter. His companion, an Arab Merchant, was slightly injured.
Because of sabotage and wrecks, railways have suspended night traffic, which is exclusively freight.
Police in Rishon-Le-Zion ordered individual curfews on eleven members of the B’rith Trumpeldor, Zionist-revisionist youth organization, including four recently released from the acre concentration camp. They will be confined to their homes from six o’clock in the evening to six in the morning. a Zionist-revisionist delegation will be received soon by high commissioner Sir Harold Alfred MacMichael.
Leon Zeidner, 40-year-old Jewish public works department foreman, was fired upon and wounded while supervising Arab road builders between acre and Safed. Several new bands were reported roaming northern Palestine. One band, numbering 150 Arabs, attacked Arab herdsmen near Mishmar Haemek.
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