The Small Actions Committee (Palestine branch of the Zionist General Council) announced today it will meet on May 18 to prepare presentation of the Zionist case before the Palestine Partition Commission when it begins formal hearings on the plan to divide the Holy Land into independent Jewish and Arab states and a British-mandated corridor.
Sergeant Salah Zuabi of the Criminal Investigation Department was fired upon in the Haifa market place this morning and fatally wounded. An Arab passer-by was also killed. The assailants escaped.
Meanwhile, Arab villagers for the first time since the outbreak of terrorism in 1936 repelled an invasion by an Arab band. Using licensed shotguns, inhabitants of a village near Nablus drove away a band which sought to raid the village.
The Nablus military court sentenced an Arab terrorist, Muhammed Salech Mahmoud, to death after rejecting his plea that he had been conscripted by a band. He was captured during an encounter near Jenin on March 16.
Hundreds of poverty-stricken Jews inhabiting 70 wooden shacks in the Florentine quarter, one of the disputed Jaffa-Tel Aviv boundary areas, faced homelessness when the Town Planning Commission ordered the shacks demolished within three days. The Jews appealed to Tel Aviv for intervention and aid.
Forty unemployed members of the Histadruth (Palestine Jewish Labor Federation) today staged a demonstration in Tel Aviv, breaking into City Hall. Leaders of the group, received by Mayor israel Rokach, described distress among the unemployed and urged the city to speed up public works projects.
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