Sporadic Arab disorders, renewed after a lull of several weeks following cessation of a six-month Arab general strike, continued today.
An armed Arab band attacked the Jewish colony of Meshek Haotzar near Kfar Saba, north of Tel Aviv. The attack lasted more than an hour. No casualties were reported.
Many Arabs were wounded, four of them seriously, during a clash between Arab groups at Tira, south of Haifa.
The authorities suspended two Arab dailies, El Liwaa and El Islamia, for three weeks each, and a third, Adifaa, for three days.
Meanwhile, the British Royal Commission, entering the fifth week of its investigation, resumed in camera sessions after several open hearings. Among those testifying at today’s session were Moshe Shertok, head of the political department of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, and James E. F. Campbell, district commissioner for the Jerusalem district.
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