Evening star., 1947-03-03
Large Palestine Area
Under Martial Law;
nDie in Violence
Violotor Of Curfew Rule
At Tel Aviv Latest
Victim of Disorders
By the Associoted Press

JERUSALEM, Mar. 3.-Deaths
by violence in Palestine mounted
to % in three days with the
shooting of a Jewish curfew
violator in Tel Aviv today as the
British Army maintained mar
tial law over a third of the Holy
Lands 100000 Jews.
British officials reported that
Isaac Poll, 30, Jewish ex-service-
man, was shot and killed while BIZ
cycling in Tel Aviv when he failed
to heed soldiers order to halt.
His death was the second trace
able to control measures imposed to
facilitate hunt for Jewish under
ground fighters. Ketti Shalom, A.
year-old Jewess, died in a hospital
yesterday, officials said she was hit
in the back of the head and her
mother was wounded in the leg by
bullets fired at Ketti's father, leav-
ing the house in violation of a cur
few. The two were standing on
balcony at the time. The officials
reported Shalom walked out after a
quarrel with his wife,.
Jewish Extremists Hunted.
Martial law was in force for more
than 25o,000 Jews in Jerusalem's
Oldest and biggest Jewish district,
the Mea Shearim section, and in a
northern coastal-plain area meas
uring some by 10 miles and en-
bracing Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, Petah
Tiqva, Benei Beraq and other jew
ish communities.
A curfew keeping residents to
their homes was lifted at dawn to-
day in the coastal section. In the
Jerusalem martial-law area, hous-
ing some $4,000 Jews, inhabitants
were allowed out for the first time
since 7 pm. Saturday as a daily
three-hour suspension Of the curfew
became effective at 10 am.
Ninth Brigade infantrymen began
a search for Jewish extremists today
in the poverty ridden vicinity of
Mea Shearim, "the place of a hum
dred gates" BY invitation, Rabbi
Moshe Goldman went along as OBJ
server in searches of religious insti-
tutions.
The army reported that soldiers
searching Tel Aviv had found
considerable quantity" of arms and
ammunition last night.
Bomb Factory Discovered.
Troops discovered a plant for
making bombs in Tel Aviv. Materials
seized included three bombs weigh
ing 100 pounds each, Is sticks of
gelignite, eight electric detonators,
20 drums of fuse wire, land mine,
an electrical exploder, and acid con-
troller and large quantity of gren-
AIDES, arms, ammunition, tools, wire,
electric plugs, military uniforms and
caps.
Brig E. F. Davis, British security
officer, arranged to have daily
meetings with the five "mukhtars,"
or elders, of the sealed of district
in Jerusalem.
ut is big problem and we are
very human about it," he ccm-
mented.
The elders were chosen by the
district commissioner.
Persons in the restricted area said
one of the most urgent problems
was an insufficient water supply In
a number of houses. Several Jews
told reporters that water tanks
atop the houses had been tam
pered with by soldiers looking for,
arms and that the water ran out
and no repairs were made.
Persons inside the martial law
area were anxious to know how
long the military rule would last.
Brig. Davis said it might be days,
a week or longer, depending on
the success Of the eradication cam
paign against terrorists.
800 Persons Investigated.
Upward of 800 persons were in
vestigated yesterday and go were
held to be questioned further after
an army search of Jerusalem's
Shaare Zedek quarter.
The British, ruling Palestine,s
Arabs and Jews by q 1923 League
of Nations mandate, said martial
law had been imposed to further
q manhunt for Irgun Zvai Leumi