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Chronicle (Levin), 4 December 1947, Page 5

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Jews and Arabs Fight Gun Battle

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Received Thursday, 11.10 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 3. Five Arabs and two Jews were killed and about 20 wounded in a Jaffa-Tel Avivi border gun baitle today, whichj lasted lor four hours. The authorities immediately clamped down a 24-hour curfew on the Jaffa-Tel Aviv border area when reports of renewed largeseale fighting reached "Jerusalem. Both sides used machine-guns and grenades. Jews taking merchandise from the ashes of the shops set alight yesterday set fire to and looted seven Arab shops in Jerusalem commercial centre today. Two Arabs of a group attempting to break out of the Old City in violation of the curfew were shot and wounded. The authorities, who earlier extended the dusk to dawn curfew to mid-day, decided to extend it to 24 hours in certain areas. Troops of the British First Infantry Division are moving into no-man's-land between Tel Aviv and Jaffa, where, according to the Associated Press correspondent, Arabs are i making an organised attempt to break through to Tel Aviv. British troops with Bren-gun carriers reinforced the police outside Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem 's Old City. Arabs, in renewed demonstrations in Oairo, stoned shops j and houses and in a few cases molested Europeans in the streets, says the British United Press' Cairo correspondent. A crowd of between 3000 and 4000, despite the ban on demonstrations, began converging on the Arab League building. The situation is tense.