Nazareth was put under 24-hour curfew today following bombing of military billets in which two Arabs were wounded. A british soldier and an arab were killed in a clash between troops and a rebel band south of Haifa. The town of Ramleh was placed under curfew after Socony-Vacuum truck had been stoned and its Jewish driver injured.
An Arab was assassinated by terrorists in the Ludd railway station. Roaming Arab bands destroyed telephone lines in several places near Gaza. British troops, continuing clean-up operations in central Palestine in an effort to uproot terrorism, arrested many suspects in raids on a number of homes suspected of harboring elements sympathetic to the rebel cause. House-to-house searches in Nablus brought to light documents disclosing details of the organization of terrorists and their accomplices in the town. inhabitants of one house were arrested and one of two Arabs who attempted to flee across the rooftops was killed The other was captured.
In the Acre concentration camp, Jewish prisoners went on a hunger strike for establishment of a Jewish camp. Prisoners in the Acre camp are predominantly Arab.
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