CURFEW IN TRIPOLI AFTER RACE RIOTS
(11 a.m.) LONDON. June 12. Reuters correspondent in Tripoli reports Arabs attacked the Jewish quarter and set houses alight. Shots and grenade explosions were heard. The authorities imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew. The authorities called out British troops and police in Tripoli to bring under control the rioting today between Moslems and Jews. There were 16 killed and 30 injured in yesterday’s disturbances. The casualties were mainly Jews. The police arrested 46 Arabs for murder, looting and arson following the rioting. The authorities declared a state ot emergency throughout Tripolitania. MR. BEVIN HOPES FOR SETTLEMENT (10 a.m.) _ LONDON, June 12. The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, in a speech, said he hoped that an Arab-Jewish settlement was possible. They were both Semitic—only their religion differed.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22663, 14 June 1948, Page 5
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