The Jewish toll of dead in the Arab disorders rose to fifty today with the death early this morning of Yehiel Haimowitz, watchman who was shot last night during an Arab attack on Kfar Saba.
After 102 days of guerilla warfare, unofficial estimates put the total dead at 225, of which number at least 165 are Arabs killed in clashes with British troops and police. Of the remaining dead, nine are British soldiers and constables.
Fifteen Arabs were killed by troops in an engagement last night near Jenin, bringing to 37 the number of Arab fatalities in two days of skirmishes, the sharpest since the disorders started on April 19.
The authorities appeared to have the situation in Tiberias under control following three days of continuous anti-Jewish disorders.
Almost all Jewish shops in the ancient capital of Lower Galilee were reopened and refugees, who had left the old city section in hundreds, began to return to their homes.
About 500 citrus bearing trees were cut down during the night by Arab marauders near Benjamina, Jewish colony founded in 1922 by the Palestine Colonization Association and named in honor of Baron Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild, father of the colonization movement in the Holy Land.
A plain-clothes Arab constable was shot and killed in Safed. His assailant escaped.
A water station of the Palestine Potash Co. on the Dead Sea was burned down and an Arab watchman stabbed.
Eighteen Arabs were arrested after police tracked rebels responsible for the attack last night which took the life of Haimovitz. The District Commissioner visited the village in which the rebels lived and imposed a collective fine on the inhabitants, which was collected in grain.
High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope flew to Amman and dined with Emir Abdullah, Arab ruler of Transjordan, who has been making efforts toward cessation of Arab terrorism.
For the fifth time, pipes of the Iraq Petroleum Company were damaged near Birkeh. Several attempts to attack Jewish cars and shops at Samakh were beaten off by police from Transjordan.
The Christian Arab daily, Falastin, was suspended for ten days. Davar, Hebrew laborite daily, was suspended for a week.
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