Death and destruction, the results of the five turbulent days in the Holy Land, marked the sixth day of the Palestine racial war.
The entire crop of the Jewish colonies Melchamia and Paria was destroyed by fire set by the Arabs. The colonies on the road between Haifa and Kinerth were under threat of attack.
A bus carrying a party of Jewish refugees from Hebron bringing with them the Scrolls of the Law from the destroyed synagogues was turned over near Jerusalem resulting in injuries to thirteen refugees. Two were seriously injured.
Samuel Ganani, lying at the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, died from his wounds today.
A British convoy proceeding toward the Jewish colony Kastinia, under attack by the Arabs, in order to rescue the surviving Jews, was attacked by the marauders. Several British soldiers were killed. The entire Jewish party proceeding with the convoy was wounded. The Arab village near Kastinia was burned as a reprisal. As this despatch is being written, the village is in flames.
Dr. Reifenberg, an assistant professor of the chemical department of the Hebrew University, was wounded.
A third official bulletin issued by the Palestine government, summing up the situation as of eight o’clock Tuesday morning, added to the figures of casualties and wounded (similar to the one issued by the British Colonial Office) that in Haifa the British troops arrested 30 persons, confiscating 25 rifles.
JEWISH BODY PLACES NUMBER OF JEWISH DEAD AT 120
A communique issued today by the Vaad Leumi, National Council of Palestine Jews, gave the total number of Jewish dead in Palestine as 120.
Arab attacks on the Jewish colony Dilb were repelled by the settlers with the assistance of troops.
The Jews of Acre found shelter in the ancient fort of the town. Mizpah near Tiberias was attacked twice, the police repelling the attack.
Attempts at attacking the Jewish population of Haifa in the quarter Ardele Yahud and on Nazareth Street were frustrated by the speedy intervention of the British marines who had just landed in the port city. The assailants were repelled. A number of Jews and Arabs were killed, how many not yet being ascertained.
Not Friedman’s wine cellars as was previously reported, but Miller’s stores were burned in Haifa.
A farm owned by a Roumanian Jew, Katz, near Acre and the girl workers’ farm near Haifa were destroyed by fire.
Unofficial sources estimate the number of Jewish dead at 150.
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