Five Jewish lads, whose age ranged from thirteen to sixteen, students at the Yabneel school, were drowned while bathing in the Jordan River. They were on an excursion and had planned to attend the memorial meeting for Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff, murdered Zionist labor leader, which was to have been held at Dagania. At the time the boys were bathing no teacher was present to supervise them. The Dagania meeting was postponed following news of the tragedy.
At Haifa police arrested four Arab Sheiks, including Khaliliss, who was recently released at the Jacobi trial. All four were accused of belonging to a secret terroristic society which allegedly planned to kill Jews. They were held for investigation.
The existence of the secret terror group was first revealed at the Jacobi trial when the accused Arabs asked for mitigation of their sentences on the ground that they belonged to a secret terror group and should therefore be treated as political offenders. A bomb was thrown into the house of Jacobi, Jewish colonist of Nahalal. Jacobi and his son were wounded and died later in a hospital.
The Arab Executive at a meeting held in Jerusalem decided to hold a demonstration in Jerusalem and a country-wide strike on October 13, as a protest against immigration and land sales which the Arabs object to. The demonstration has been prohibited by the government. Demonstrations to be held in other Palestinian cities will be decided upon later.
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