BRITISH TROOPS ENFORCE CURFEW

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25364, 11 December 1947, Page 7

BRITISH TROOPS ENFORCE CURFEW

“British troops last night bivouacked in the orange groves in the no-man’s-land between Jaffa and Tel Aviv with crders to enforce a ‘shoot at sight’ dusk-to-dawn curfew,” says the Jerusalem correspondent of Reuters. “The British move follows a Jewish and Arab battle on Monday night when, according to latest reports, at least 12 Arabs and six Jews were killed, with scores on both sides wounded. “The no-man’s-land between Jaffa md Tel Aviv is a five-mile crescent containing 20,000 Jews and Arabs. The borderland area, curving from the Arab village of Salameh on Tel Aviv’s

I south-east corner, makes a broad . sweep downward and then wedges bei tween the two cities to the Mediter- , The adds that the area was quiet last night. He reports that nine Jews and six Arabs were i either shot, stabbed, or beaten to death ; in disturbances yesterday, and that un- ; known gunmen shot and killed a Brit- ■ ish soldier in a Jewish district of Haifa last night. The City Council in Nahariya, a Jewish town in north Palestine outside the ■ proposed Jewish State, said that the ; police had removed . “licensed and : sealed” arms from a city building, leaving the city disarmed. J