Fifty truckloads of troops were rushed to northern Palestine today after reports were received that Arab terrorist bands were assembling near the frontier.
Terrorist threats prompted an entire Arabic-speaking Jewish community, numbering thirty families, to evacuate the village of Pekiyin, near Safed. Thirteen Arab houses in the village of Attil have been marked by the authorities for dynamiting in punishment for the uprooting of trees in a nearby Jewish orange grove.
Troops surrounded and searched the village of El Tasif, near Beersheba, in southern Palestine, in a hunt for terrorists. Villagers displayed “calling cards” of Issa Battat, notorious terrorist leader, bearing demands for money. They said the cards were delivered by a khaki-clad emissary.
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