Within 24 hours after the Big Three announcement on a new policy on arms shipments to the Near East, shell fire from Transjordan territory destroyed cornfields south of Hebron which were being harvested by Israel Bedouins, a military spokesman announced here today.
The continuous shell fire apparnently did not injure any of the Arabs, but did set fire to the corn. The entire harvest and barns in which it had been stored were lost.
United Nations observers were today investigating reports that several members of the Transjordan Arab Legion stationed on Mt. Scopus in Jerusalem — where the Hebrew University and Hadassah Hospital are located — were wounded by Israelis. Israel quarters deny that such an incident occurred.
High-ranking Israel and Transjordan officers met today to discuss the number and locations of the mixed Arab-Jewish patrol posts to be established along the frontier between the two countries to guard against infiltrees.
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