CHIEFS CONFER
BRITISH MOVE-OUT SPEED-UP DESIRED FEAR OF HOSTILITIES (Noon.) JERUSALEM, Mar. 14. The commander of the British land forces in the Middle East, General Sir John Crocker, conferred at the weekend with the High Commissioner of Palestine, General Sir Alan Cunningham, it is believed, with the object of completing the British evacuation of Palestine before the target date of August 1. It is thought that the widespread fighting which is feared after the termination of the British mandate on May 15 may hamper the later stages of the evacuation unless it is speeded up. Ten Arabs and six Jews were killed in street fighting today in the village of Faluj, north-east of Gaza. Six Jews were killed in a skirmish in the Negeb area after a Jewish convoy broke through an Arab roadblock. Jewish witnesses failed to identify three absented British police constables at an identity parade at the Jerusalem police headquarters as being connected with the Ben Yehuda street bombing on February 22.
The British police arrested the three constables in a missing armoured car during an Arab-Jewish clash on March
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22586, 15 March 1948, Page 5
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