Fifteen bedouins were arrested today on suspicion, having been implicated in a frustrated plot to blow up the prison camp between Acre and Safed. They are also charged with having uprooted trees at Kfarmalul. The arrests were made by the Haifa police who followed footprints leading to bedouin tents between Nazareth and Nahalal. They found a recently used revolver and its owner who was found to be the man who left the footprints.
The attempt to blow up the prison camp was foiled by the watchman who was badly injured. While on guard he noticed Mohammed Kamel Saadi, recently released from prison, creeping with dynamite in his hand towards the camp. It is thought that the bedouins also planned to dynamite the house of the police officer in charge of the prison camp.
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