Democrat and Chronicle · Rochester, New York · 10 December 1947
CP-1947-022
‘Shoot to Kill’ Orders Given British Troops In Palestine Riot Area
Fighting Rages, Curfew Placed On 20,000
The Associated Press, Jerusalem
Transcribed from the clipping
“Jerusalem — (AP) — British troops with ‘shoot to kill’ orders were moved into the bloodstained border area between Tel Aviv and Jaffa last night. They moved to end aggression on the battlefield where Arabs and Jews have waged their fiercest fighting in 10 days of Palestine communal warfare.
Acting desperately to stamp out the disorders that have claimed 112 lives, injured approximately 600 persons and destroyed property with an estimated worth of 10 million dollars, British authorities placed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on the Tel Aviv-Jaffa ‘no man’s land’ and sealed it off with British troops.
Palestine police were being used for patrols inside the area, where four Jews were killed yesterday, and soldiers formed lines along the border. The order put 20,000 Jews and Arabs under house arrest from 5 p. m. to 6 a. m. until further notice.”
And, in a box on the same page: “Damascus, Syria— (AP) —The ‘Palestine Liberation Committee’ announced yesterday that 2,000 Arabs had volunteered for ‘commando’ duty and would be sent into Palestine as their training is completed to begin guerilla warfare against the projected Jewish state.”
Context added by this archive
A boxed item on the same page reports a body in Damascus calling itself the Palestine Liberation Committee, seventeen years before the Palestine Liberation Organization was founded. The subhead over the fourth paragraph reads “4 More Jews Killed.”
Cite this clipping
"‘Shoot to Kill’ Orders Given British Troops In Palestine Riot Area," Democrat and Chronicle, 10 December 1947, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1947-022. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1947-022
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