The Palestine Government has offered a reward of £200 for the capture of the murderers of the three Jewish workers of Yadjur. The authorities are now inclining to the belief, the J.T.A. understands, that the crime was of a political character, probably carried out by hired assassins, though it is not altogether clear by what political group they were hired, or what was the motive of the murders. Suspicion has fallen in some quarters on the Arab murder gang which was very active in the neighbourhood of Safed after the massacre of August 1929. The telephone stations were demolished and the telephone wires cut between the Arab village of Shefaram, to which the tracks led from the scene of the murders, and the town of Acre, apparently to cover the retreat of the assassins. A new act of brigandage near Beersheba where an Arab merchant has been killed, has created a feeling of uneasiness in the country.
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