Suspicions of Nazi complicity in the Arab revolt increased today when numerous German citizens from Tanganyika, speaking Arabic fluently, were arrested in Jaffa on suspicion of being connected with harbor disturbances.
The belief that Germany might be involved was strengthened when it was discovered that many of the rifles found with Arab rebels after uprisings at Nablus, Tulkarem and Jaffa were of German make. Observers had previously inferred from the fact the Arabs were using new rifles that some foreign power might be implicated.
Arabs in lighters last night attempted to set Jewish boats in the temporary Tel Aviv harbor on fire by throwing tins of burning gasoline on board. Newspapers expressed the belief today that Nazis were involved.
The German colony, Wilhelma, near Haifa today donated twenty sacks of flour and foodstuffs to Arab strikers.
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