Staten Island Advance · Staten Island, New York · 2 December 1947
CP-1947-018
Arab Mobs Touch Off Violence In Jerusalem
Jewish Shops Are Fired, Wrecked; One Jew Slain; Retaliation Prevented
United Press, Jerusalem
Transcribed from the clipping
“JERUSALEM — (UP) — Angry Arabs started an orgy of burning, beating and stone throwing in Jerusalem today and police, helped by troops and members of the Jewish Hagana, threw barricades across a street to stop a mob of Jews, advancing upon the Arabs with cries of ‘Revenge! Revenge!’
British troops, with their rifles pointed toward the crowd and backed by armored cars, contained the angry Jews in Zion square. The Jews threw stones through the windows of an Arab theatre, but the British and the Hagana men managed to hold them back… One Jew was killed and at least five Jews and one Arab were injured.
The Arabs exchanged shots with police trying to stop their protest against the United Nations partition of Palestine. They set fires as fast to Jewish shops that firemen could not put out one before another was burning.”
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A banner across the top of the page, and nothing else on the scan.
A correction
The presentation captions this scan as the Baraboo News Republic. The masthead printed on it reads STATEN ISLAND, N. Y., and it is the story column belonging to the Staten Island Advance banner of the same day, so it was merged into that record rather than filed as a separate paper.
Cite this clipping
"Arab Mobs Touch Off Violence In Jerusalem," Staten Island Advance, 2 December 1947, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1947-018. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1947-018
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