Death Sentences on Arabs Cause Riots [At teas ten SETS, Dee. 25.
ten Arabs, a British officer jand "two British " soldiers were wounded to-day in the second pitched, battle within 24 hours in the Nazareth Hills, "a short "distance from. the Church of Nativity.
Attempting to suppress the out~ break of Arab-Jewish terrorism which has resulted in scores of deaths during the past several "mont! British troops routed a band of Aral {infuriated by death sentences recently imposed on six of their comrades for terroristic activities.
RAF, planes continued to scout over bands of armed Arabs as British amicers planned to meet any emergency.
Death toll in the Christmas week hostilities mounted to 27 dead to-day fas feeling heightened - between the Arabs and Jews, Arabs in Jenusalem and Jaffa refused to exchange customlary Christmas greetings because of the seriousness of conditions.—United Press.
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