(Tuesday)– Unofficial tabulation early today placed the toll of victims in the racial warfare which broke out anew on the Jaffa-Tel Aviv border yesterday at sixteen Jewish and three Arab dead.
At least two more Jews were killed in the Jaffa clashes yesterday. Two others, Yehuda Simantov, 60, and Chaim Kishler, 36, were reported by the Hebrew press to have been slain, Two more died yesterday at Government Hospital of wounds received in the early fighting, bringing the estimated total of Jewish dead to sixteen.
Thirty-one Jews were wounded in yesterday’s clashes at the border, according to the latest tabulation. Included in this group are Arie Halperin. 24, and the youths Shmuel and Simon Tovchai. Many of those wounded were reported today in a serious condition.
Meanwhile, the riots threatened to spread to Jerusalem when Arab mobs attempted to invade the Jewish quarter of this city. The police succeeded in dispersing them, however, arresting their leaders.
While a Jewish delegation of leaders was conferring with District Commissioner James Edward Campbell on safety measures, the situation continued tense in the territory adjacent to the all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv and the predominantly Arab Jaffa.
Yesterday Arabs began resorting to the torch in their battle with the Jews. Huts of poor Yemenite Jews on small farms between Jaffa and Tel Aviv were burned to the ground.
In the all-Jewish city itself, a group of Arabs who attacked Jews on Zorach Bartnett street were routed by the Jews. A strict seven-o’clock curfew, invoked when the rioting started Sunday, was rigidly enforced last night.
Reports from various colonies were reassuring, none of them thus far having been affected by the disorders. Even the colony of Beit-Vegan, which lies beyond Jaffa, cut off from Tel Aviv except for telephonic communication, has not been affected.
Yesterday, Zelig Levinsohn, resident of the Tikva section of Jaffa, was killed by Arabs who fired upon him and his family from ambush as they returned from a shopping trip. Levinsohn’s son and three other members of the family were wounded.
Three battleships today dropped anchor in Jaffa harbor. Whether or not they were ordered there as a result of the rioting could not be learned.
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