Armed troops today were guarding every point of access to the mellah, the Jewish quarter of Rabat, administrative capital of Morocco, following the outbreak of widespread anti-Semitic disorders which began Wednesday night. The city today resembled a besieged town.
Attacks on the Jews began Wednesday night when reports that the Jews were killing Arabs rapidly spread through the town and aroused the Arabs to action. What actually happened, it was learned after the troops restored a semblance of order, was that a Jew had stabbed an Arab in self-defense and that the latter had subsequently died in a hospital.
The Rabat incident follows closely the attacks on Passover on the Jews at Casablanca, not Tangier, as previously reported. The Casablanca attacks, it is now definitely established, were provoked by foreign agents.
An Arab youth, Bermussi, has been arrested here for attempting to obtain photographs of several hundred Arabs executing a Fascist salute.
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