A British soldier and a Jewish watchman were wounded today as Arab disorders continued in their fourteenth week.
The soldier was shot during an attack by a band of 25 Arabs near Hebron. Snipers shot the watchman near Hanoun.
Fire set by Arabs destroyed an automobile owned by the Ethiopian consul.
About five acres of fruit trees were destroyed by marauders in the Jewish settlement of Hartieh.
A communique reported that seven of a band of fifteen Arabs which last night attacked a convoy near Jerusalem were wounded by the convoy’s return fire. A plane helped rout the bandits.
Sniping was reported during the night at the Mizpah settlement and police and military posts in Tulkarem. A bridge at Gaza was damaged by a bomb explosion. Other bombings occurred at Beit Vegan and Majdal.
Another British cruiser, the Sussex, dropped anchor in the harbor of Haifa yesterday, ready to lend aid if necessary to the 15,000 troops that are striving to check disorders that broke out on April 19 and have since taken more than 150 lives.
It was learned that Captain Lord Allenby, nephew of the late Marshal Edmund Allenby, conqueror of Palestine, is serving with the Eleventh Hussars during the disturbances.
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