Under further emergency regulations enacted today, the High Coni-missioner for Palestine is empowered to demolish or otherwise dispose of possessions in Palestine of any person resident in the country or abroad who is aiding or instigating violence, intimidation or sabotage. The new order will affect political refugees outside the country.
Curfew in the New City has been lengthened by two hours, and will now begin at 10 p.m., and finish at 6 a.m., by order of the Military Governor.
The appointment of military commanders to supersede district commissioners, which was tantamount to martial law, was received here yesterday with great relief by the British residents.
The. streets of the new city were almost deserted when night fell, with the inhabitants remaining indoors and listening anxiously to unabated machine-gun and rifle fire.
It was believed that the rebels, under the command of a chieftain named Hamad Madawi, had planned, after taking the old city, to make, a general attack from there.
The latter part of the plan was frustrated by the action of the police in closing the gates and imposing curfew. This left the rebels trapped within the walls of the old city.
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