A Bedouin has been arrested in the Beisan area, who has confessed that he, and two other Arabs, fired the shots in the Jewish colony of Kfar Yehezkel last week, wounding the Jewish colonist Freud, and Mr. Hershkovitch, an official of the Zionist Agricultural Experimental Station.
One of the two other Arabs concerned in the outrage has been arrested, but the third has escaped.
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