London newspapers reporting the violent massacres which took place in Constantine, Algeria, emphasize that the worst features of the riots were the atrocities committed by the Arabs on the Jewish women and children. Estimates of the dead run to over 100, most of them killed in a brutal fashion. The newspapers also revealed that most of the Jewish victims were killed by Arab debtors, who seized upon the riots as a means of ridding themselves of debts owed the Jews.
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