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INCENSORED REPORTS DESCRIBE JEWISH
PALESTINE SITUATION AS EXTREMELY GRAVE
Number of Dead Reaches 150 as
Utacks Spread Throughout Country;
Itriti'h Defense Action Considered
Weak; Self-Defense Hampered;
Alarm for Aid is Issued
Cairo, Egypt, August 26 (J. T. A.)
I'mensored reports reaching here
fr.>rn Jerusalem describe the situation
at the close of the fourth day of the
Arab-Jewish warfare as extremely
jjravt notwithstanding the presence of
a larger number of British troops and
marines in the country’.
Direct reports coming from the
leaders of the Jewish population con
tained a serious charge against those
in command in Palestine.
Isaac Ben-Zvi, Jew’ish labor leader,
at 9 p. M. Monday evening telephoned
here to say that the attacks spread
Monday all over the country, in the
north and in the south, in the Valley
of Jezreel and in Haifa, in Tel Aviv
md Jerusalem. Many are reported
killed and wounded in all places.
"Many from among us have been
killed. Our arms have been taken away
by the authorities but not from the
Arabs,” Mr. Ben-Zvi stated.
“The riots continued in Haifa,” he
Beirut, Syria, August 26 (J. T. A.)
Persons fleeing from Palestine who
arrived here reported that new at
tacks occurred last night and Monday
norning at Haifa. A great many were
killed and wounded, they said.
On Monday morning Arab bands
attacked a train carrying troops to
Haifa. The rebels succeeded in dis
arming some troops. The gravity of
the situation is continually increas-
Ihe latest developments in Pal-
e-tme indicate that the disturbances
•‘re gradually assuming the character
f an Arab revolt against the Pales
tine government.
^ Jaffa, August 26 (J. T. A.)—The
British cruiser Sussex arrived at noon
'day landing a party of British
marines.
« airo, August 26 (J. T. A.)—Ad-
'•ices received here from the Vaad
Ha ir, the Jewish Community Board
Jerusalem state that at the time
f despatch Arab attacks on the Jeru-
dvm Jewish quarters Machneh Yehu-
i and Shaarei Chessed were in
progress.
AM. COUNTRY IS AFLAME
Reports reaching here this morning
,v that the w’arfare is extending
throughout the country.
( Monday morning the Jewish
Pulation of Haifa, the Palestine
j'ert city, was attacked by a furious
■'lem mob in the center and in the
u urbs °f the city. Three persons
T died and many w r ere wounded.
. e attack on the Jewish suburb
n i ** a< * ar Ha’Carmel, was re-
-^e . An appeal for help was receiv-
rom the Jewdsh pioneer settle-
-‘ts in the neighborhood, situated in
•be \alley of Jezreel.
.-ports were also received that new
ab demonstrations are being held in
UNSPEAKABLE CRUELTIES COM
MITTED BY MOSLEM ARABS
A group of American Jews, resi
dents and visitors here, took refuge in
the house of the American Consultate
and in the building of the French
Catholic convent. A report reached
this city in the morning that a new
band of Arabs are concentrating in
Nablus intending to march on Jeru
salem.
According to hospital records there
were 80 dead of whom 59 are Jews.
Two hundred and thirty-three injured
persons were recorded.
Gruesome scenes occurred during
the massacres in various parts of the
country. Unspeakable cruelties were
committed by the savage Arab assail
ants when even women and small
children were ruthlessly murdered
and houses destroyed.
NAMES OF THE PALESTINE
MARTYRS; BLESSED BE THEIR
MEMORY
Jerusalem, August 26 (J. T. A.) —
Following is an incomplete list of the
dead and injured American and Pales
tinian Jews in the Moslem Arabs at
tack on the Jewish population of Pal
estine.
Killed
William Berman of Philadelphia,
24, graduate of the College of the
City of New York, student at the
Hebron Yeshiva.
Jacob Wexler of Chicago, 17 years
old, student at the Hebron Yeshiva.
David Sheinberg of Pennsylvania,
22 years old, student at the Hebron
Yeshiva.
Wolf Greenberg, New’ York, 17
years old, student at the Hebron Ye
shiva.
Henry David Epstein, student at
the Hebron Yeshiva.
Krasner, student at the Hebron
Yeshiva.
Harry Frunen, student at the He
bron Yeshiva.
Benjamin Horwitz, 17, of 96 Jewell
Street, Brooklyn, student at the He
bron Yeshiva.
A. Vialnai, Jerusalem, student at
the Hebrew teachers’ Seminary of
Jerusalem.
Mrs. Ungar and her little daughter,
of Hebron.
Rabbi Schach of Motza.
Rabbi Glazer, killed at Motza.
Engineer Raitan, member of a pro
minent Sephardic family of Jerusa
lem.
Reuben Volpo, Jerusalem.
Mr. Rozen, Tel Aviv.
Benjamin Goldberg, Tel Aviv, son
of the well known Russian Zionist
leader, J. L. Goldberg.
Mr. Feingold, Tel Aviv.
Mr. Harrari, Tel Aviv.
Mr. Berkovitch, British Jew, Tel
Aviv.
Madame Massuda Mizrachci, Buk
hara Jewess.
A. D. Slonim, manager of the He
bron branch of the Anglo-Palestine
Company (it w’as erroneously report
ed previously that his father, Rabbi
Jacob Joseph Slonim was killed).
Rabbi Franco, Sephardi, Hebron.
Rabbi Hassoun, Sephardi, Hebron.
5 members of the Makleff family,
including husband, wife and 5 child
ren slaughtered at Motza, near Jeru
salem.
Wounded
The following American boys, stud
ents at the Slobodka Yeshiva at He
bron:
Raklin Winchester, Springfield, Ill.
Samuel Senders, Brooklyn.
Lester and Max Ilarbaiter of Brook-
lyn, Lester 16 years, Max 18.
Raoul de Koven, son of prominent
Chicago physician.
Also, Dr. Walter Moses, president
Tel Aviv Manufacturers Association.
Eight more Jews were buried in
Jerusalem Sunday night in the ceme
tery on the Mount of Olives includ
ing Sergeant Norka of the Jerusalem
police force and Demantstein.
Chief Rabbi A. J. Kook visited the
English Oxford student, Wenny, who
is lying wounded at the Hadassah
hospital. The Chief Rabbi blessed the
patient.
The Polish Consul General at Jeru
salem, Zbyszewski, called at the Ha
dassah hospital to express his sym
pathy.
I>ondon, August 26 (J. T. A.)—The
correspondent of the Jewish Tele
graphic Agency at Beirut, Syria, was
ordered to proceed to Jerusalem to
join staff of the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency. He cabled London headquar
ters that it was impossible for him
to enter Palestine.
AMERICAN CONSUL REPORTS
SOME NAMES
Washington, D. C., August 26 (J.
T. A.)—The State Department has re
ceived telegrams from Paul Knaben-
shue, American Consul in Jerusalem
reporting the following American
Jewish students at the Slobodka
Yeshiva in Hebron, Palestine: Jacob
C. Wexler of Chicago and Benjamin
Hurwitz of New York City.
Consul Knabenshue also reported
that among the wounded were the fol
lowing American students: Moses
Feivel Mitovin, A. Dov Monkin, Elie-
zer Harbater nnd Moses Harbater.
The last two are now with their par
ents in Jerusalem.
Consul Knabenshue added that ad
ditional names will be telegraphed
later.
Warsaw, August 26 (,J. T. A.) —
The Polish Foreign officer informs
the correspondent of the Jewish Tele
graphic Agency here that the Con
sul General of Poland in Jerusalem,
Mr. Zbyszewski, called on acting High
Commissioner H. C. Luke as the sen
ior of the diplomatic corps in the Holy
City demanding adequate protection
for foreign citizens and for the diplo
matic corps.
Mr. Zbyszewski visited the colony
B’nai Brak consisting of Polish Jews
which was said to be in danger.
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