The Haganah, Jewish defense organization, today ## a statement warning that it will retaliate for the killing last night of four Jews by a group of Arabs who attacked a crowded Jewish cafe in Tel Aviv.
“The hand of the Haganah,” the statement said, “will reach these murderers and their helpers and they will be punished accordingly. We will restrain ourselves from ## which are in accordance with the will of the Mufti and his cohorts. Many demand ## Haganah revenge this slaughter, but it is our duty not to forget that many of our ## are interested in bloodshed between Jews and Arabs in Palestine.”
At the same time David Remez, chairman of the Jewish National Council, re-## that a special conference of heads of Jewish settlements will take place shortly to map out defense measures against the continued attacks of Arab gange, since the government seems to be helpless in checking them. Remez pointed out that twenty-three Jews had been killed by Arab bandits during the last six months.
Three of the Jews killed last night were buried in Tel Aviv this afternoon as police launched an inquiry into the outrage. The fourth, Rina Sol-Amiel, a woman, will be buried in Jerusalem, the home of her family. The three were: Abraham Viniaver ## Mayer Teomi, 35; and Hans Buksdorf, 35. An Arab, who was wounded during, the attack died in a Jaffa hospital during the night. A second wounded Arab is said to be in a critical condition.
POLICE FOIL EXTREMIST ATTEMPT TO ROB BANK
Palestine police today foiled an extremist attempt to rob a small Jewish bank in Jerusalem when they captured one of the robbers who was carrying a sack with the money which the group had seized at the point of a gun. The gang included five men and a woman who told the manager that they were members of the underground. The woman and four others escaped.
In Haifa last night a young Jewish woman, Gitta Weiss, was seriously wounded in the head by a stray bullet during an exchange of fire between extremists in a speeding car and a military patrol.
A meeting of editors of the Hebrew newspapers in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv today protested the arrest of Isaac Remba, editor of the Revisionist organ Hamashkif. At the same time, the Jerusalem Journalists Association protested the detention of three after newspapermen, seized in the mass round-up last week.
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