GENERAL STRIKE OF ARABS
PROTESTS AGAINST PARTITION LONDON, October 3“A general strike of Palestine Arabs began at dawn as a protest against the possible partition of the Holy Land,” reports the correspondent of the Associated Press in Jerusalem. “The strike has paralysed all the Arab section’s transport. “The police stood to at dawn and tommy-gun units replaced the usual riflemen on. foot patrols. Barbed-wire blocked the old welled city’s seven gates in case the Arabs tried, to storm from the mosques to demonstrate ip modern Jerusalem.” The correspondent of the British United Press 'in Beirut says that protest strikes against the partition plan occurred in Beirut and Damascus and other Lebanese and Syrian towns in compliance with the Arab Higher Organisation’s appeal to the Arab and Islamic worlds to strike and demonstrate to-day against the United Nations’ report on Palestine.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25307, 6 October 1947, Page 7
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