News Brief

The Jewish colony Chuldah, a Jewish National Fund settlement in lower Galilee, was destroyed by the Arabs Monday night. Recho-both, a colony nearby, was untouched. The Ruttenberg electric power station at Haifa was attacked by the Arabs. Five Jews were killed. The power house is in danger.

Isaac Ben-Zvi, the Jewish labor leader, in a telephone message Tuesday 11 A. M., reported that the attacks continue in all parts of the country and that the danger for the Jewish population is still great. The British soldiers who just arrived are in insufficient force to cope with the situation and they are chiefly concentrated in a few points.

The Arab attacks are conducted in accordance with a general plan throughout the country. Their aim apparently is to destroy all Jewish colonies in Palestine, he said, appealing for the transmission of a message to the Zionist Executive in London to endeavor to obtain instructions from the British Colonial Office to the Palestine government to abstain from arresting the members of the Jewish self-defense corps, and from confiscating their arms. Mr. Ben-Zvi reported that members of the Jewish self-defense corps are being arrested and held for trial. He suggests that Palestine Jews be enrolled in the police force and be permitted to join the British troops. Mr. Ben-Zvi further stated that the great majority of the colonies attacked by the Arabs had to cope with fire from English rifles with which the attackers were armed. The Arabs have used modern signals to an amazing extent. The facts available prove, he stated, that Arab government officials were the chief instructors of the rebels during the attacks. Many synagogues have been burned throughout the country, he reported.