Palestine Jewry observed the second day of Passover today amid tension raised by the death of a Jewish engineer and new disorders in various parts of the country. Ten thousand Jews visited the holy Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. Elsewhere, synagogues were crowed with holiday worshippers.
The latest fatality in the current disorders was discovered when the body of M. Zwanger, a Jewish engineer from Poland, who had disappeared, was found in a ditch near Rehoboth.
A wealthy Arab was shot and wounded on the Tel Aviv road. He said he had been attacked by Arabs, but the Arabic press claimed Jews had shot him. The Jewish settlement of Sejera was surrounded and fired upon for a half-hour before police repulsed the invaders. No casualties were reported.
Eight Arabs accused of shooting at Jewish workers in the fields of Kfar Tabor last Friday were sentenced to a month’s imprisonment. In a clash with police which followed the attack one Arab was fatally wounded. The Havas News Agency said a policeman was wounded.
The leader of Kfar Tabor, principal Jewish settlement in the district appealed to the authorities and to the Jewish National Council for assistance.
Seventeen Communists were placed under preventive arrest in the Jerusalem district and a number of others were jailed throughout the country, according to Havas. Nine of the radical jailed here were Arabs and eight were Jews.
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