Police to Be Withdrawn from Tel Aviv Next Week; Nine Jews, Two Arabs Killed

All British police unite will be withdrawn from ###l Aviv area on December 15 and Jewish police will take over responsibility for ##intenance of order in an area containing nearly half the Jews in Palestine, it ### officially announced today.Meanwhile, the sound of gunfire was heard almost continuously in the Tel ### Jaffa area today. There has been no let-up for over 24 hours in the sporadic ####ements on this literally flaming front. At least five Jews were killed here ###g the day, bringing the day’s Jewish death toll to nine.The area in which Jewish police will take over next Monday includes the city ###el Aviv and its suburbe bounded by the towns of Potach Tikvah, Ramath Gan and ## Brak. No mention was made of the evacuation of British troops, many of whom ### been stationed in the battle area between Tel Aviv and Jaffa.

BRITISH REFUSE TO ARM JEWISH POLICE, MILITIA, BUT WILL GIVE GUNS TO ARABS

IN JERUSALEM, ABRAHAM HIRSCHLER, 45, WAS STABBED AND WOUNDED FATALLY BY AN THE BIRKAT SULTAN QUARTER. IT WAS REPORTED THAT THE ARAB WAS ARRESTED WITH

Two of five Jews killed on the Tel Aviv battle front were identified as ?m Shlugersky, 30, and Max Preger. Jacob Sarabi, 27, was found strangled to ? this morning near the Hassan Bek Mosque, in the border area. This is the third ?ng in a row that a Jew has been found murdered in the vicinity of this house of ?p. According to one report, Arabs found Sarabi dressed in Arab raiments and ? him as a “Zionist spy.”

One Jew was reported stabbed to death in an Arab section of Haifa. Haim ?an, a bus driver, was shot and seriously wounded while driving his vehicle in ?. A police communique says that British troops wounded two Arabs in an exchange ?ots in a Jewish section of the city. A British constable was killed by unknown ?en. An unidentified Jew was killed and a second seriously injured when their car which they were travelling encountered an Arab roadblock near Haifa and was set ##.

A quantity of ammunition was discovered by Jerusalem police in the Arab ?ashibi quarter. At least two Arabs were listed as dead during the day, one being ?d near the Manshieh police station between Tel Aviv and Jaffa.

ARAB WHO WAS NAZI PARACHUTIST REPORTED LEADING ATTACKS ON TEL AVIV

Arab sources said Sheikh Hassan Salameh, noterious pro-Nazi leader who was ?achuted into Palestine during the war and was captured and subsequently escaped ?m the British, is now back in Jaffa leading the attacks on Tel Aviv. Dispatches ?m Cairo disclosing that the ex-Mufti has returned there from Lebanon are arousing ?bs here who believe that he will shortly arrive in Palestine.

The British announced that they were withdrawing arms from Arab temporary ?stables in the Samaria district after a number of them had deserted with their ?pons.

Last night one Jew, Moshe Cipori, was killed during an attack on the Shapiro ?arter of Tel Aviv. During the battle Irgunists and Haganah men fought side by side ## the first time in two years. Cipori, 25, was an Irgunist. The battle started ?ortly after a huge public funeral for three Haganah leaders killed in or near the ?ity since Saturday.