867N.00/290: Telegram
The Consul General at Jerusalem (Morris) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 22—4 p.m.]
The internal situation is becoming more acute daily. Recent developments include repeated efforts to sever telegraph and telephone communications, an attack by armed Arabs on a convoy near Haifa and most significant an attack by Arabs on a detachment of Cameron Highlanders during which one of the latter was wounded when the Arabs were being dispersed after ambushing a convoy of buses and wounding two Jews near Jerusalem, in addition to the usual agricultural sabotage, arson, sniping and throwing of crude bombs.
Military establishment further reenforced by the arrival today of a battalion of Seaforth Highlanders from Cairo and a company of Royal Engineers from Egypt. The latter will assure functioning of railway.