RENEWED ARAB VIOLENCE FLARED IN VARIOUS PARTS OF PALESTINE TODAY, MARKED BY BOMBINGS, AND ATTACKS ON A TRAIN, THE HEBRON POLICE STATION AND THE JEWISH COLONY OF GIVEAT ADA.
A BARRAGE OF SHOTS WAS FIRED ON THE LYDDA-JERUSALEM TRAIN THIS MORNING, WITHOUT REPORTED CASUALTIES. THE SAME TRAIN WAS HALTED LATER BY A STONE BARRICADE LAID ACROSS THE TRACKS BY ARAB TERRORISTS.
GIVEAT ADA, NEAR HAIFA, WAS SUBJECTED TO ARAB CROSSFIRE. WATCHMEN SUCCEEDED IN REPELLING THE ATTACK. A RAIN OF SHOTS WAS FIRED INTO THE HEBRON POLICE BARRACKS. SEVERAL BOMBS EXPLODED IN BEERSHEBA, IN SOUTHERN PALESTINE. FOUR ARABS WERE ARRESTED. THE IRAQ PETROLEUM COMPANY’S PIPELINE WAS PUNCTURED AT GENIGAR AND ESCAPING OIL IGNITED.
TWO BOMBS EXPLODED HARMLESSLY NEAR THE ROTHSCHILD SCHOOL, AN ORTHODOX INSTITUTION HERE. THE ARAB THROWER WAS ARRESTED.
BOMBS WERE THROWN AT THE HOMES OF THE ANSARI BROTHERS, ONE OF WHOM WAS SHOT AND SERIOUSLY WOUNDED RECENTLY AFTER HAVING SUCCESSFULLY SUED THE MUFTI OF JERUSALEM (NOW A FUGITIVE IN SYRIA) FOR BEING OUSTED FROM THE AWQAF (MOSLEM RELIGIOUS ESTATES FUNDS).
AN ARAB WAS SHOT DEAD BY POLICE LAST NIGHT AFTER HE HAD THROWN A BOMB AT A BUS EN ROUTE FROM HAIFA TO MOUNT CARMEL. THE BOMB FAILED TO EXPLODE.
THE NAZARETH MILITARY COURT SENTENCED A 60-YEAR-OLD ARAB TO SEVEN YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT FOR POSSESSING SIX ROUNDS OF RIFLE AMMUNITION.
LIFE SENTENCE OF HAJ KASSAM, IMPOSED BY THE NAZARETH MILITARY COURT MONDAY FOR POSSESSION OF ARMS, WAS REDUCED TODAY TO ONE YEAR BY MAJOR-GENERAL A.P. WAVELL, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF BRITISH TROOPS IN PALESTINE, BECAUSE OF HIS ADVANCED AGE, WHICH WAS GIVEN AS 75. HAJ KASSAM’S SON, SENTENCED AT THE SAME TIME, MUST SERVE HIS LIFE TERM, GENERAL WAVELL RULED.
A CONSIDERABLE QUANTITY OF ARMS DESIGNED FOR EMIR ABDULLAH, RULER OF TRANSJORDAN, WAS UNLOADED AT THE HAIFA DOCKS. THERE HAVE BEEN PERSISTENT RUMORS OF UNREST AND DISTURBANCES IN TRANSJORDAN.
MEANWHILE, ANTI-ZIONIST DEMONSTRATIONS WERE REPORTED IN IRAQ, CLIMAXED BY SUBMISSION TO THE BRITISH CONSULATE OF PROTESTS AGAINST BRITISH POLICY IN PALESTINE.
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