Safed, where four Jews, three of them children, were killed last night by Arab terrorists, today was a city of mourning as shops and public institutions were shuttered during the funeral of the victims. Arabs stoned the closed shops.
The Arabs hurled a bomb into the home of Rabbi Unger, killing the rabbi and two of his children, a girl of eight and a boy of five and seriously wounding another, a six-year old girl, who died early today.
Although wounded by a rifle barrage which preceded the bombing, the rabbi’s mother and grandmother, heavily veiled, were at the graveside this morning.
Ninety-two American citizens in Safed, today wired the United States Consul here demanding protection.
High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope issued a communique deploring the “horrible outrage” in Safed.
In Jaffa, thirty Jewish workers escaped death when a bomb thrown into their factory-yard exploded.
Tension was heightened in all of upper Galilee by the assassination Mayor Nasr el Din of Hebron, reportedly for supporting the mediation efforts of Emir Abdullah, ruler of Trans-Jordania.
The Jewish death toll since the disorders started April 19 rose to sixty when early this morning Arabs killed Tuvia Rabinowitz, a watchman at the Zofiah settlement near Ramat Kovesh. Total deaths, including some 230 Arabs and twelve Christians, are estimated at 325.
Arab outbreaks against Jews were also reported in Betsera, Mismar Haemek and Sharon.
Armed Arab bands raided the settlement of Meartez and damaged the water pumps. Four hundred orange trees were uprooted at Migdal.
Three Druses, members of the warlike, Mohammedan tribe which dwells in the Lebanon mountains of Syria, were arrested today as they were crossing the frontier into Palestine carrying 4200 revolver bullets.
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