Indication that this all-Jewish city is threatened with a food shortage as a result of the disorders is contained in a memorandum submitted to District Commissioner Robert E. H. Crosbie today by the municipal council.
The memorandum demands that the Government act to pacify the Jaffa harbor area in order to permit replenishing of Tel Aviv’s failing supplies. The situation is aggravated by the influx of some 6,000 Jewish refugees from districts affected by the disorders, 3,500 of whom are being cared for by the city, the remainder being quartered in private homes.
Other demands by the council are for assurances of protection, restoration of communications between Tel Aviv and the rest of the country, and assistance for the refugees.
Replying to the memorandum, Mr. Crosbie stated that the situation had improved since yesterday, although it still was not normal. He added that the Government speaks through acts and not proclamations and that it was giving every consideration to the problems with which it was faced and hoped to solve them as the situation clarifies.
Earlier Commissioner Crosbie was reported to have warned Arab leaders to halt provocative attacks on Jews or arms would be given to the Jews. The Arabs are understood to have replied that they were not responsible for the action of gangs.
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