Collective Punishment Instituted to Check Arab Depredations

Collective punishment of Arabs for depredations against Jews has been introduced, according to an official communique today which said an Arab village was punished for the stoning of Jewish automobiles.

Three Jews were injured, two seriously, in attacks in different parts of the country. A Jewish watchman was wounded when Arabs shot into the Kfar Yehoshua settlement. A Jewish merchant, Benzion Zilker, was wounded by Arabs when he attempted to open his shop in Old Jerusalem. He went home after treatment at Hadassah Hospital.

At Tel Aviv, Leah Perelman, 40, a railway switchwoman was seriously injured by a stone thrown at her from a train on its way to Jaffa.

In the last twenty-four hours 600 dunams of crops were burned in the vicinity of Kfar Baroukh in the Sharon plain, 375 dunams of crops razed at Ramat David near Nahalal and several hundred trees destroyed in the Jewish National Fund forest at Mishmar Haemek.

An attempt at starting a fire in a large Jewish grocery in Haifa was frustrated.

Fire broke out again in the colony of Ein Harod, scene of previous incendiary blazes, destroying seventy more dunams of crops.

Arab newspapers said a train was derailed near Tul Karem.

Jews stopped working today in the fields of lower Galilee in fear of Arab attacks after a water shortage in the neighborhood was caused by the firing of the water station at Kfar Tabor.

Haj Amin el Husseini, the Grand Mufti, has made an effort to mobilize the patriarchs to induce communities to support the general strike. He is reported to have the backing of the Latin patriarch, Barlassiano, who is said to be anti-Jewish.