An intensified campaign against Arab terrorism, spurred by the arrival of Lieut. Gen. John G. Dill in command of the greatest armed force to occupy Palestine since the World War, resulted today in death sentences to two Arabs, the slaying of another and the prohibition of an Arab conference.
The first death sentences since the disorders broke out 22 weeks ago were issued today when the Court of Assizes sentenced two Arabs to execution for an attack on British soldiers near Nablus.
The Government, expected momentarily to proclaim martial law, prohibited a congress of local strike committees from all parts of Palestine scheduled for Thursday.
The Arab was killed when a military detachment replied to gunfire near Ras-el-Ahmar. After two train workers had been seriously injured as a result of sabotaging of a railway line at Kfar Ginnis, the houses of two notorious Arab agitators in Lydda were demolished as a punitive measure.
Four Jews were injured, two of them seriously, when a bomb exploded in a factory of Mea Shearim Street on the outskirts of Jaffa.
Police sought persons responsible for shipping bombs in tomato baskets to Jewish merchants in Jerusalem.
The Havas News Agency said Gen. Dill summoned military chiefs from all parts of Palestine to report on the situation and confer with their new leader, who has set up staff headquarters at King David Hotel.
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