An Arab mob near Ramleh attacked today a dairy truck en route to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, killed the Jewish driver, seriously wounded his assistant and burned the truck. The slain man was Eliezer Wikenstein, 26, a Hungarian.
Earlier in the day another Arab mob, bent on enforcing the general strike which is crippling Palestine commerce, was reported to have halted at Kalkillia three trucks laden with vegetables, killed one Arab driver and burned one truck.
Defying police, an Arab crowd in Jerusalem stoned the automobile in which a Jewish Telegraphic Agency reporter was riding on his way to the Government offices to get an official communique. The attack was made near the city’s Damascus Gate.
Four bomb explosions were reported today in Haifa.
Jews living in the vicinity of the Rockefeller Museum fled from their homes in panic when twelve automobiles full of armed Arabs were reported to have arrived at the grounds.
A delegation representing the Arab National Strike Committee called on High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope and informed him that negotiations toward stopping the general strike would not be entered into until Jewish immigration was ordered completely halted.
The Agudath Israel, extreme orthodox Jewish organization, meanwhile lodged a formal protest against the strike leadership of Dr. Hussein Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem. The protest demanded Dr. Khalidi either resign from the strike committee or the mayoralty.
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