PALESTINE QUIETER

Chronicle (Levin), 5 December 1947, Page 5

PALESTINE QUIETER

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—Reuter

Police Restrictions Make Disorders DifHcult

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Received Friday, 10.5 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 4. The total forces of Haganah (the Jewish resistance movement) , estimated to number 80,000 will be fully alerte'd throughout Palestine from tonight to guard against fur--ther outbreaks of Arab violence says -Reuter's Jerusalem correspondent. The Arab Higher Committer called off, without -explanation, the demonstrations which were to have been held throughout Palestine tpmorrow. It is unofficially sugges'ted that ftte curfews and police restrictions make demonstrations practieally impossible. The situation in Palestine is quieter today, but there were several bad ineidents. An Haganah escort of a Jewish bus convoy from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv fought off an Arab attack r.ear Ramleh. Casualties, including dead. are re ported. The Associated Press reports that skirmishes continued on the Jaft'aTel Aviv border area. One Arab was killed and several Jews and Arabs' wounded. The police are reported to have shot a Jewish factorv worker in Tel Aviv. ' A British soldier was injured by Arabs attempting to preak a'miLtary cordon at Jaffa gate. Arabs stoned airline cabs travelling to Lydda Airport and beat up one Jewish driver. Nineteen Jews and fifteen Arabs have been killed in Palestine since the adoption of the partition plan. Reuter's Cairo correspondent reports that about 5G00 demonstrators rushed the BriMsh Consulate in Alexandria this afternoon. The police kept them off with emptv trams and police Iorries. Demonstrators in Baghda'u wrecked a British kindergarten and attacked tlie informatior office at the Ameriean Embassy They also stoned B.O.A.C. offices. The Secretary-General of the Arab League, Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha, in Camo has called for enlistments for fighting in Palestine: