TENSION RUNS HIGH

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26540, 15 August 1947, Page 5

TENSION RUNS HIGH

CLASHES IN PALESTINE JEWISH AND ARAB VIOLENCE TEN DEATHS REPORTED Rec. 9 p.m. JERUSALEM, Aug. 13. Seven Jews and three Arabs have been killed and 26 Jews and 12 Arabs wounded in communal clashes in Jaffa and Tel-Aviv since the- night of August 10. More than 10 incidents aggravated tension to-day in the Manshief and Karton quarters of Jaffa where 20,000 Arabs and Yemonite Jews live side by side in squalid huts. A Jewish news vendor was beaten and stabbed and an Arab crowd fatally stabbed a Jewish truck driver who stopped to do repairs in a street. Most Jaffa shops were shuttered while knife attacks, stonings, and beatings occurred. An Arab source in Jaffa told Reuter's that Arabs overpowered and bound four Jews carrying arms near the police station and handed them unhurt to the police. Jews attacked and injured an Arab at Tel-Aviv. The police revealed that an explosive envelope burst into flames when a clerk date stamped it in the Rehoveth Post Office yesterday. An Arab was found shot dead today in a grove on the northern outskirts of Tel-Aviv. Haganah members claimed that the Arab was executed because he allegedly guided armed raiders who attacked a Jewish cafe in Tel-Aviv last Sunday night. Eleven Moslem and Christian Arab organisations, including the Militant Moslem Brotherhood, issued in Jaffa a “keep calm” appeal to the inhabitants. The Deputy-mayor of Tel-Aviv asked the populace to avoid provocation. , „ The authorities in Jaffa regard the outbreak as serious, but not a planned campaign. Jews taking the Jaffa troubles seriously recall that clashes in this district preceded the Arab rebellion'in 1936.