Other attacks were reported from Jaffa, Famleh, Lydda and Safad… The trouble in Jerusalem began when a crowd of 200 to 300 young Arabs marched from the Walled City into the central business section about 9 o’clock in the morning and began smashing show windows and looting… A group of several hundred Arabs were ranging the border between Tel Aviv and the all-Arab city of Jaffa.  The explosion of grenades and the rattle of machinegun fire between the Arabs and defenders of Tel Aviv was heard for a long period during the night and then subsided into an ‘armed pause’ when British police in armored cars routed the combatants.” Source: New York Times December 3^rd, 1947