Military attachments are still assisting the local police at Fax, a seaport community in Tunis, maintaining order and guarding against the possible renewal of threatened anti-Jewish disturbances. A tense situation has developed there as a result of a report which Arabs have been spreading that Jews are responsible for the destruction of all Mosques in Russia.
The charge has also been made there that a Jewish doctor was responsible for the death of an Arab patient whom he had been treating. In order to prevent the spread of this rumor the authorities ordered an investigation and established that the Arab had died from natural causes.
A local Arab tribunal condemned several Arabs who participated in the recent disturbances, sentencing those found guilty to imprisonment ranging from a few days to three months. The same court, however, also sentenced two Jews to thirty days imprisonment because of their efforts at self-defense.
A local publication makes the assertion that shortly before the outbreaks against the Jews, thirty Palestine Arabs arrived in Tunis and it is believed that they prepared the ground for the disturbances.
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