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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 242, 9 July 1938, Page 11

The Jerusalem correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says that precautionary arrests are being made on a large scale. They include Dr. Waschitz, a local Zionist and revisionist leader.

Police searched the offices of the Jewish Labour Federation. British police have largely replaced Arab and Jewish constables, who can no longer be relied on.

A message received from Jerusalem yesterday stated that there was acute tension throughout the whole of Palestine as a result of a bomb explosion In the crowded municipal market at Haifa, when 18 Arabs and three Jews were killed and 38 others seriously injured. Panic reigned after the explosion and the police opened fire, causing further fatalities.

It was the worst single outrage since the present Arab-Jewish tension began, and the tragic death-roll raised the bitterness and animosity existing between Arabs and Jews to fever pitch. Haifa’s main street resembled a ghastly shambles. Dead, dying and injured were lying among the wreckage of cars and market stalls. Jews and Arabs violently blamed each other for causing the shooting.

POSSIBILITY OF MARTIAL LAW

Jerusalem, July 7.

Casualties in the past two days have totalled over a hundred and there is a strong possibility of martial law being proclaimed.

At Haifa six Jews and 21 Arabs were killed and 11 Jews and 92 Arabs injured, according to the revised list of casualties.