Sir John Chancellor, the High Commissioner for Palestine will visit next week with a party the Jewish colony Beer Tuviah, which was destroyed in the riots of August 1929, and is now approaching the and of the reconstruction works, in order to see for himself how the colony is rising anew from its ruins.
The rebulding of the colony is expected to be completed early in the spring, when the settlers will take up their residence there. A grove will be dedicated in memory of the two Jews who were killed in the Arab attack.
The reconstruction of the colony, the southernmost Jewish settlement in Palestine, is being carried out with funds provided by the Palestine Emergency Fund. When the new settlers arrived last September they found the old houses burned down and those not totally destroyed without roofs, the walls charred and dilapidated, the doors and windows frameless and every movable tile carried off. Some of the ruins were hastily repaired for winter habitation. The dispensary and school are housed in three buildings specially repaired for the purpose. The new buildings are being built of brick which is being manufactured on the spot. The new settlement is being constructed one and a half kilometres east of the site of the old Beer Tuviah.
The old settlers, too discouraged after their harrowing experiences at the time of the riots to take up the rebuilding, have been replaced by a group of members of the Agricultural Workers’ Union – young, enthusiastic pioneers, many of them ex-legionaries.
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