Mufti Tells Arabs To Stop Attacks On Jews

Chronicle (Levin), 6 December 1947, Page 5

Mufti Tells Arabs To Stop Attacks On Jews

(N.Z.P.A.-

-Reuter

* Convriaht)

Reeeived Friday, 7.40 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 5. The Daily Expfess' Jerusalem cor respondent sayS that on instruction from the Alufti ih Beirut, Ihe Arat Highef Organisu tion last night calleu ofl" ihe demonstrations 'planned foi Deeember 5. The Alufti wants no m.orv Arab attacks on Jews for tlie timo lieing "because we are not vdt ready". said Dr. HuSsein Klialidi, the organisa tion 's secretary-general. " It is al. over for the present," he added. "1 is not in Ihe Arab interest to dasli witf the British. ' ' Steel-helnieted Highland infantn tr0bp& siirrounded Jerusalem 's Old Citj toiiight to prevent Arab brcak-outs. I'he Haganah announced today that has completed plans to defcnd Jerus'i ierii 's Jewisli quartcrs. It will divid. the city into 10 zones, each under a Haganah oflicer, with mobile patrol-. ready to nish to troublc spots. ■ A' violent strect battle oecurred in ihe Arab town of Hamleh, on the Jerusaleni-Tel Aviv road. -Arabs, 1111111 ning road-filucks, stopped all trartninto the town, which is a shambles, damaging vehicies and wounded Jews. Reuter 's Jerusalem eorrespondent says that thousands of Moslems 11m: Christian Arabs lined the highway and stoned two poliee-eseorted Jewisli con voys, injuring at least two Jews. Th Jewisli drivers lired during the lirst attack, wouudiTig four Arabs, three o. them seriously, but in a iaier attack Arab snipers lired 011 the second eonvoy of drivers and tlie police f'ought then. off with riHc-lire and grenades astones rained down on them from tlie rooftops^ Thirty .Tcws attacked an Arab-owned orange grove 111 the .JnlTa area wit'. hand-grenades and automatic. fire wounding one Arab. The police stoyiped an attempt' b\ Arab prisoners at Athlit gaol laboui camp, near llaifa, to stage a mas'eseape. Tlie police lired over the heads of the prisoners, who tried to climb the harbed wire. There were no escanes and no casualties.