Two Arabs were murdered Wednesday night near Petach Tikvah. The first was a case of an Arab policeman who had slept in an Arab house at the village of Rentie. About midnight somebody knocked at the door. When the policeman opened the door to answer he was fired on. A family quarrel is suspected.
The second case was of an Arab worker who slept in a Jewish orange grove. His death is thought to have been revenge because he had denounced another Arab as a keeper of bombs. The latter had been arrested and it was probable the bomb-keepers’ relatives had revenged his betrayal.
The house of a Jewish watchman of one of the orange groves at Rehoboth was fired into last night by Arabs. The present state of the country is characterized by everybody here as disturbed and anarchic.
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