Thirteen British aero planes are circling above the Mosque of Omar area, where a huge Moslem crowd has assembled for the Friday prayers.
British planes are also circling over other menaced places.
The secretary of the Palestine Arab Executive told the correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency here this morning that the Executive and the Moslem Supreme Council have despatched pacifying messages to the villages in the vicinity of Jerusalem, to the effect that the villagers abstain from coming to the city.
An urgent call for aid was just received here from Tiberias, as the neighboring Arab villages are in immense excitement, rushing to the city. A further report lists among those killed last night in Safed the mother of Mr. Afriat, director of the Mizrachi religious school, who perished with her in the massacre at Safed, Meyer Cohen, a chauffeur, and the son of Rabbi Kler.
Among the seriously wounded in Safed is an Arab member of the Transjordanian frontier force, who heroically defended the Jews.
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