Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-30
Several Jews Are Killed and
Score Wounded in Safed
Assault.
MOSLEM SABBATH BRINGS
RENEWAL OF TENSION
British Planes Fly Over Mosque of
Omar as Throngs Assemble
for Rites.

JERUSALEM, August 80 (P).-The
Jewish Telegraphic Agency cor
respondent here today reported the
receipt of advices that the town of
Safed. which was attacked by Arabs
yesterday, was in flames.
BY the Associated Press.
JERUSALEM, August 80. - British
airplanes. guarding against possible fur
ther disorders in Jerusalem. today cir
cled above the area of the Mosque of
Omar, where a huge Moslem crowd as
sembled for the Friday prayers.
The correspondent for the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency reported that 13
planes were above this area, while 9TH
ers also were circling other places where
trouble might develop.
While Jerusalem, though tense. was
calm, reports were reeeived of further
attacks on Jewish colonies. The Jewish
Telegraphic Agency correspondent re-
ported that nine Jews were killed in
the town Of Safed during Thursday
night. Other reports said that five
Jews were killed and twenty wounded
when Arabs attacked the community.
Troops finally quelled the trouble.
British Drive OFF Arabs.
The colony Of Telpioth, between Je-
ruSalem and Bethlehem, was attacked
by Arabs also, but they were driven off
by platoon of British troops.
A grave situation also was reported
to have developed in Tiberias, where the
Arabs were restless.
Today, the Moslem sabbath, started
in an atmosphere of tenSeness. Sew
eral new attacks on the Jewish quar-
tiers OF Jerusalem were made last night,
but were repelled by British troops.
The tenseness was increased around the
Mosque of Omar district by the know
leoge that 1t was just week ago today
that the disorders started in the neigh
borhood of the historic Wailing Wall.
The secretary of the Palestine-Arab
executive told the correspondent for the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the ex-
ecutive and the Moslem Supreme Coun-
Gil have dispatched pacifying messages
to the villagers in the vicinity of
Jerusalem asking the villagers not to
ccme to the city.
Demands to Be Presented.
The Palestine Arab executive an
nounced this morning that it would
present certain demands to Sir John
Chancellor, the high commissioner, as
follows:
% Establishment of a parliament in
Palestine.
(2) The revocation of the Balfour
declaration pledging the British gov
ernment to facilitate establishment of
the Jewish National Home, in Palestine.
90 Non-admission of ZionistS into
Palestine.
There was continued desultory fight
ing in the less populated sections. Loot
ing continued even in Jerusalem and
danger from marauding tribes of Bed
ouins from Southern Palestine and
Transjordania still existed.
Looters caught in the act were Or
dered shot forthwith by court-martial.
The Felaheen - the Arab peasantry -
who fear the wild Bedouins almost as
children as hostages of peace to the
Jewish labor settlement, Kiryath Ana
Wan.
Colonists Deeply Touched.
The Jewish colonists were deeply
touched by the sign of friendliness,
which served somewhat to cool the
passions aroused by stories of Arab
atrocities on Jewish girls and youth in
other parts of the Holy Land.
There were continued scattered dis
orders.
Two Arabs were killed In an attack on
the Jewish settlement at Kalandia.
A Jewish girl and a small child were
wounded on the road between Ludd and
Tel Aviv. Later two Jewish men were
killed on the same road.
Arab Is Assassinated.
An Arab was assassinated on a street
in Jerusalem, and three more houses
were burned in the old city.
DR.. Korkidi, physician, was shot and
wounded by sniper while operating
upon a patient in the Hospital Misgab
L'Dach, in Jerusalem. He had attended
the sick continuously throughout the
troubles, performing operations despite
the dangers.
At Hebron a Jew named Moshe
Mitovsky died of wounds received in the
Saturday massacre, and at Melhania
and Poria crops were burned.
Work was started again in the Emek,
and word was brought from there that
every attack on colonists in the district
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