SNIPING IN JERUSALEM
RETALIATION BY POLICE NO CASUALTIES REPORTED. PROCLAMATION OF MARTIAL LAW PORT OF JAFFA IDLE (United Press **sociation —By Electric Telegraph Oopynght.) Received 1G.45 a.m. to-day. JERUSALEM, Oct. 31. Sniping was continued throughout the night and caused the police to return fire, but there were no casualties. The streets at dawn were found to lie strewn with nails to impede military motor lorries. Owing to the tension every ceremonial Avas dispensed with in connection ivith tliG official opening of the magnificent neAV harbour at Haifa, constructed by British enterprise at a cost of £1,250,000. Yesterday martial law Avas proclaimed throughout Palestine. _ The port of Jaffa is idle and the porter® struck at Haifa, whither British troops have been drafted. A Palish steamer carrying 500 Jewish immigrants was warned back from Port Said, where permission to land was refused. Three wounded Arabs have died. A deputation of veiled Moslem AA-omen Avaited on the High oommissi oner demanding "the release of Arab notables.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 1 November 1933, Page 5
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