PALESTINE: Arabs stage general strike to protest at travel ban instituted to stop banditry (1938)
BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Arabs living in Palestine (Israel) have staged a general strike to protest against travel restrictions imposed by the British authorities to prevent banditry. Full Description: PALESTINE: Jerusalem: EXT City at dawn, car along road through desert, sign post pointing way to Jericho and Jerusalem , broken telegraph poles laying by road, fence along road, dog sleeping beneath barbed wire barricade, soldiers walking from cars into building, military lorry along, arms of cart lifted to allow car to pass, police and soldiers trying to control crowd, barricade across road, soldiers seen at end of passage, people along street, walls of city, bullet holes in sign Jerico Dead Sea , man from car and shaking hands with passenger, nurse checking foot of soldier, nurse tending to mouth of soldier, older n
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