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...Near Tel-Aviv, Jews in battledress attacked an army camp with hand grenades, killed a British officer and a Negro sentry. The British had no time to call out their club-&-shield-toting police pickets (see cut). With a bellow of rage, African native soldiers burst out after the attackers. Storming into the nearby Jewish village of Holon, they sprayed it with bullets, hit anything that moved. Before their officers could round up the berserk blacks, an old man had been riddled with bullets, a boy ripped with bayonets...
...Christmas Day there was peace, if not good will, among men of the Holy Land. Then, two nights after Christmas, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Tel Aviv felt the shudder of bombs...
...Jerusalem the target was the central police building. Amid a rat-tat-tat of diversionary Tommy-gun fire, terrorists hurled bombs through a window. A whole section of the building collapsed in the explosion. A similar, simultaneous assault was made on the Jaffa police station. In Tel Aviv one objective was the Royal Engineers' Armory. Terrorists and troops (both sides wearing British uniforms and steel helmets) fought a swift, confused battle in the dark. In the three attacks at least ten were killed and 13 wounded. The two senior police officers of Palestine barely escaped with their lives...
...National Council of Palestine Jews promptly proclaimed a general strike; rabbis ordered rams' horns to be blown for a day of prayer and fasting. In Tel Aviv, angry protest meetings flared into open riots. Bands of youths with smoking torches set fire to Government offices, damaged stores, stoned buildings. In the center of the all-Jewish city Zionists fought a pitched battle with police, who retreated to avoid bloodshed. Five Jews were killed and 56 injured; 23 police and soldiers were wounded, mostly with homemade hand grenades...
Police in armored cars cordoned off Jerusalem's central section, searched the crowds in public buildings. In the narrow area between the Jewish city of Tel Aviv and the Arab city of Jaffa, panic flickered among scores of jittery Jewish families. Plumbing signs marked on walls by sewer workers had been mistaken for Arab threats, and had raised visions of another St. Bartholomew's Eve. This week, Jews staged a general strike; Arabs planned to follow suit...