Returned from a week’s tour of the Transjordan, Britain’s Palestine Partition Commission resumed in camera sittings here today and heard a delegation comprising David Ben Gurion, Moshe Shertok and Bernard Joseph, of the Jewish Agency, and Zalman Lipschitz, chief engineer of the Palestine Land Development Corporation.
Meanwhile, terrorists again set fire to fields at the Jewish colony of Rosh Pina and fired for two hours on settlers attempting to extinguish the blaze.
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