Eight Arabs killed, fifty-eight wounded by police in repelling armed Arab attacks on Jewish settlements in various parts of the country. Barbed wire entanglements were set up in Tel Aviv to guard against new attacks.
Total Jewish dead now at eighteen for four days of rioting, eighteenth victim being Sholom Hadad, who together with two others reported yesterday, died of wounds received the previous day.
As general Arab strike against Jewish immigration and sale of land to Jews spread throughout the country, Government decided to transfer Jews of Hebron to Jerusalem at Government expense. Hebron Jews bore the brunt of the 1929 riots.
Situation of 6,000 refugees from Jaffa and suburbs, now quartered in Tel Aviv, gave concern as money and food ran low, with the Government thus far not responding to requests for aid.
Military planes flying over Tel Aviv, Jaffa and other trouble centers, observing developments.
Incendiarism by Arabs continued, two buildings and a synagogue in the Nevei Shalom section of Jaffa being fired.
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