Evening star., 1947-08-17
Arab, Jewish Armies
Stand Modified in
Jaffa-TeI Aviv Area
By the A.socjoted p,sss

By the Associoted Press
JAFTA, Palestine, Aug 16-Arab
and Jewish armies" well organ
lied. well supplied with small arms
and completely illegal, were mo-
bilized tonight on either side of
the Jaffa-Tel Aviv border as the
Holy Lands war eased off on It's
seventh day.
The Jewish Haganah defense mi
litia on the Tel Aviv side and the
Arab Nejada youth organization on
the Jaffa side were under orders
from their respective leaders to en-
force the peace-but to be alert
for attacks from the other side.
The only fatal incidents OF the
day in the troubled areas where
Jews and Arabs have been at each
others throats for a week in erup-
tons of hatred were the fatal stab
bing Of one Jew in the Jaffa-Tel
Aviv border slums and the shooting
OF an Arab by an army patrol in
the curfew area before dawn.
An Arab boy died Of injuries suf-
fered in clash three days ago,
bringing the weeks casualty list to
"a dead-2l Arabs and 13 Jews.
Haganah said it also had repulsed
two attacks by Arabs, but no casual
ties were reported.
| Arab House Is Burned.
An Arab house was burned In an
orange grove near the Natikvah
quarter of Tel Avid in midafter-
noon, and Jewish sources said they
believed a band of Jewish youths
had fired it as a suspected meeting
place of alleged Arab brigands."
Haganah Jews mounted heavy
guards at farm settlements in the
coastal area, particularly near
Ramat Gan, where Haganah an
nounced it had blasted the home
of another Arab yesterday, killing
seven in the explosion and "execut-
ing" four others by gunflre. Haga-
nah said the house was the head
quarters of Arab Brigands" who
had set off the disorders by an
attack on a night club last Sunday
| night.
Nejada, an Arab scout" group
which wears American Army sur
plus uniforms, went into defensive
action along the Jaffa border for
the first time tonight after Arab
leadership had called for stop
page to the violence.
Jaffa sources said Nejada and
Futuwah, a minority group within
the Arab youth movement, had
bitterly debated whether to demand
a cessation of violence or maintain
hands off, attitude and let
events take their course. These
Arab informants said Nejada won
the argument after receiving au-
thority from Arab Higher Executive
headquarters in Cairo to instruct
young Arabs to restrain themselves,
Tension Running High.
Tension began running high in
Jersualem's old city tonight, and
police mounted a double guard at
all points where Arabs and Jews
might come into conflict in passing
to theil respective holy places.
The Arabs trooped by thousands
into the old city for the beginning
of the three-day feast # Ramadan
in the Mosque of Omar and other
mosques
A feature of the celebration will
be the reading of message from
the exiled Mufti of Jerusalem, Hal
Amin AL Husseini in Carlo, who is
expected to plead for peace and
calm.
| 1t was authoritatively reported
that some 300 wives of British busi-
nessmen in Haifa will be returning
within three weeks in the first re-
taxation of the evacuation order of
several months ago which sent
thousands of British wives and chill
dren out of the Holy Land when
Jewish terrorist attacks on the
British were at their height.
GA statement authorized by the
Mufti in Cairo replied to Haga-
nah broadcast that the Mufti was
planning a "D-Day" in Palestine.
The statement declared this re-
port was Zionist nonsense" and
that Zionists, not Arabs, had
started the current troubles0
Cunningham Communique.
At Jerusalem. High Commissioner
Sir Alan Cunningham announced in
communique tonight:
GAS a result of recent disturb
ances of the peace in the Jaffa-Tel-
Aviv area, security measures have
been intensified and the government
firmly intends to take severe action
against any persons. whether Arab
or Jewish. detected in any attempt
ed violence or breach of peace.
There can be no justifica ton what
eyer for individuals to take the law
into their own hands.
THE high commissioner. there
fore, calls upon all members of the
community to keep peace, to avoid
provocation and to exercise re-
straint
"It should be clear to every one
that at this time, when the future
of Palestine is before the United Ma
tions and world opinion, internecine
strife can be in the interests of no
body"
Majority of u. N. Probers
Reported for Partition