Looting in Safed has been stopped, according to the latest report received here this afternoon. Attacks on the Jewish settlements in various parts of the country, accompanied by fire and looting, continued throughout the night, threatening to destroy the work of cultivation and construction carried out by the Jewish settlers during the past quarter of a century.
Reports received by the correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency state that an attack was perpetrated on the colony Attaroth (Kalendia), ten kilometers to the north of Jerusalem, but the attackers were repelled by the settlers and the military. The threshing floors in the colony Gederah were destroyed by fire. Much damage was also wrought in the colony Kfar Baruch.
The colony Ain Zeithim was destroyed by fire. The colony Shei Abrek, a religious workers’ settlement, was attacked. Wednesday night the granaries in the colonies Geva and Zichron Abraham were destroyed by fire. The settlement Mishmar Ha’Emek, in the Valley of Jezreel, is aflame. The settlers were transferred to Afuleh, the city built in the valley by American Jews. Rosh Pinah and Machnaim, in Upper Galilee, are in danger.
Seventy Arabs were arrested by the authorities in connection with the attack on the Jewish settlement of Motza near Jerusalem, where many houses were burned and six Jews were killed.
The military forces dispersed a group of Bedouins who were moving northward from the Beersheba.
Confirmation of the report was received here that two Jews were killed and two wounded Wednesday night between Ludd and Tel Aviv. The victims were brought to Tel Aviv today.
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