About 50 Arabs are detained in Haifa prison pending the police investigations into the Yadjur crime, but the clues found appear to lead more or less definitely to a village near Safed, from which the so-called “green-hand” Arab murder gang operated after the riots of August 1929. The police, who continue to believe that the assassins were hired, are understood to be now in possession of the names of three of the leaders of the gang, who fired the actual shots which killed the three Jewish victims.
The general uneasiness caused by the outrage is giving rise to many groundless rumours of fresh attacks in various parts of the country, the latest being of a supposed ambush of a Jewish party near Ramatakim, in the Valley of Sharon.
The Polish Consul in Palestine has visited the Yadjur wounded in the Hadassah Hospital in Haifa, his visit giving rise to a report that the Polish Government may claim an indemnity for the victims who were Polish citizens.
The Palestine Arab organ, the “Felestin”, denounces the Yadjur murders as horrible and despicable. It makes no difference, it says, whether the crime is due to personal antagonism or was an act of sporadic brigandage. We are shocked by the outrage.
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