Disregarding the arrival of the eighth battalion of British troops today, and the presence of another cruiser at Haifa, Arab rebels in many parts of the country continued their campaign of guerilla warfare against Government forces and the Jews.
A pitched battle was fought between Arab bands and troops along the railway line at Beisan, near the Jordan River. The Arabs retreated in the direction of Jenin and the hills and are believed to have taken with them several wounded.
Five persons were injured, one of them seriously, when police fired into an Arab crowd at Hebron, dispersing a demonstration during the funeral of one of the victims of Monday’s bomb explosion at the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem. The demonstrators stoned the police.
More British troops arrived from Egypt today to cope with continuing Arab revolutionary disorders which since April 19 have claimed nearly eighty lives.
Including today’s reinforcements, the second battalion of the Dorsetshire Regiment, the British garrison in Palestine now comprises eight battalions, an air corps, tanks and artillery units, numbering in all close to 8,000 men and officers. In addition there are more than 3,000 regular policemen under arms and about 1,000 special policemen.
An unidentified German settler was stabbed by an Arab at Beit Lahm.
Bombings were reported at Safed, where a woman was slightly injured, on the outskirts of Tel Aviv and in Gaza.
The Lord Allenby status at Beersheba, in Southern Palestine, was slightly damaged by a bomb.
A Jewish automobile convoyed by a detail of Jewish police was ambushed by Arabs last night in the Valley Jezreel, near Kfar Ezekiel. The driver was wounded.
The guard fought its way through the ambuscade, with the Arabs firing from all sides. Police and troops later dispersed the rebels.
More than 9,000 vines were uprooted last night near the colony Zikron Jacob. This is the twentieth instance of such vandalism in the district which to date has caused damages of more than $75,000.
Davar, labor daily, reports that the rumor of Ragheb Bey Nashashibi’s resignation from the Arab Supreme Council is unfounded.
Shots were fired at the army barracks in Nablus. Sporadic shooting occurred in the Jerusalem suburbs of Motza and Mekor-Haim and in Kfar Etzyon.
A group of Pullman cars on the railroad tracks at Lydda were set on fire.
According to an official communique, Jerusalem Jews destroyed a carload of vegetables bought by a Jew from Arabs.
Josef Tabori, wounded Jewish driver of an automobile that was ambushed near Kfar Ezekiel last night, was taken to the Hadassah Hospital at Haifa.
The second Arab among a group of twenty-five Arabs and Armenians injured when a bomb exploded at Jaffa gate yesterday died.
An Arab was shot by soldiers at Majdal when he neared a railroad track despite a warning to stay away from it. A fire destroyed 1,000 trees at the Balfour Forest.
A communique said that aside from violators of curfew regulations, 1,495 persons have been arrested since disorders broke out on April 19. These include 1,313 Arabs, of whom 754 have been convicted, 226 acquitted and 333 remain to he tried; and 182 Jews of whom 104 have been convicted, seventeen acquitted and sixty-one remain to be tried.
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