Sharp battles between Arabs and British troops occurred in several parts of the country today, causing an unascertained number of casualties among the rebels.
Eight Arab casualties were reported officially in an engagement at Yatma near Nablus. Troops, aided by army planes, engaged a band near Tel Joseph, inflicting several more casualties. Other brushes occurred near Naharya, Ain Harod and Talif.
The authorities levied a $25,000 collective fine on the city of Nablus. Curfew was proclaimed at Beisan.
A British soldier was wounded when a railway train was derailed near Ataroth. The engine and several cars were wrecked. This wreck, with another yesterday, resulted in damages estimated at $150,000.
Arabs damaged a pipeline of the Iraq Petroleum Co. on the shore of the Sea of Galilee and set fire to the escaping oil.
Police and troops replied to a volley fired at the Lydda railway station, causing unascertained casualties.
Two Arabs in a caravan passing near Jaffa were wounded in an ambush, one of them seriously. Three Jews in the neighborhood who rushed to the scene to witness the fight were arrested.
Caravans at quarries near Hedera were targets of snipers, as well as Public Works Department laborers near Hatikvah. Shots were fired at Mount Canaan in the vicinity of Jerusalem.
About fifteen acres of vines were damaged at Tulkarem. Seven hundred orange trees were cut down at Ashdod.
A cable from Jamal el Husseini, Arab leader now in Paris, said that the unofficial Arab delegation now returning to Palestine after a stay in London, will confer with William Ormsby-Gore, British Colonial Secretary, in Alexandria, where the Colonial Secretary has gone for a vacation.
An official communique said that the labor situation in Haifa, which had been menaced by an Arab strike, has improved. Haifa is a British naval base and serves as the terminus for the Iraq Petroleum Co. pipeline.
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