Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-27
us. STUDENT TELLS
OF ARAB MASSACRE.
Defenseless Jews Were Mutt
lated Horribly, With limo
cents Falling in Attack.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


JERUSALEM, Palestine, August n
M.AN.A)-The massacre of the de-
fenseless Jews at Hebron begins to ap-
pear in its true colors as the survivors
arrive in this city under guard.
1t was the worst outrage in which
Americans have been involved in recent
history. The Chinese outrageS in 1927
are mild In comparison,
The English Missionary Hospital
opened Its doors to women and children
Immediately. Some of these were Suf-
fering from wounds and mutilations too
horrible to print. Doctors and muses.
described the nature of these outrages.
General Story Of Massacre.
The Jewish private hospital, Desharin
Zadek, is also receiving Hebron sur
vivors. Among these are Moses Har-
better, II: Lester Harbeiter, is, both Of
New York
The general story Of the massacre, as
reconstructed from the narratives Ct
those who are able to talk, is as follows:
The Arabs began running through
the streets on Friday afternoon throw
ing stones at the houses inhabited by
Jews. Those attacked Immediately left
YeShiva Orthodox Theological School
to their homes, where they locked them
selves in.
: There were never more than five or.
six Jews in one house. The disorder
continued through the night, but no
houses were broken into.
The next morning the Arab hillmen
arrived in town and began exciting the
populace to further disorder.
About IL o'clock noon savage mob
began q systematic attack on the houses
in the Jewish quarters. The hillmen
were armed with swords, knives and
cudgels. The Jews possessed no weapons
Of defense except their household fur
niture.
The Arabs butchered, assaulted
women. burned, pillaged and destroyed
at their will.
Jewish children. 4 or 5 years of age,
were moaning in agony from their
wounds yesterday morning.
MOslem Fury Hits Innocent.
Those who suffered III these out
RACES are peaceful, unarmed students,
women and children. The rabbinical
schools in the holy cities, at Hebron
and Salad. had been receiving Jewish
students from the whole world for many
centuries in peace.
But Moslem fury, aroused during the
last few weeks, has been unable to dis
tinguish between aggressive newcomers
and these innocent students.
Lester Harbeiter's story. as told in the
crowded ward of the Desharia Zadek
Hospital. follows:
II lived in the house Of German
Jew named Bezalel Samarek not far
from the Yeshiva, with HurwitZ, Schein-
berg and Fraumann. All Of us were
studying for the rabbinat
I'VE left the Yeshiva on Friday after
noon when we saw how the Arabs were
going wild. We locked ourselves in the
house and waited in terror all night.
cause we could see the Arabs were
completely out of their minds.
"Our only hope was-would the
British get there In time?
About noon on Saturday the attack
began. We had nothing to protect our
selves with and no policemen came near
us. Our doors were very strong and
the Arabs were unable to break 1t in.
They finally tore the shutters of the
windows and came in.
British Inadequacy Is Seen.
In the whole tragic spectacle the In
adequacy Of the British forces In this
country Is plainly seen. There was only
one British policeman in the city. He
protected the American boy, Moses
Harbeiter for about half and hour and
was then forced to leave him under
guard of an Arab policeman. Accord
ing to the boy, this Arab policeman
promptly opened the doors to the mob.
The massacre lasted more than two
hours before the air force arrived, re-
storing order and rescuing survivors.
It was impossible to search all the
houses Immediately and many of the
wounded lay five, six and seven hours
among the dead.
The only hospital in Hebron belongs
to English Christians. 1t was closed,
Because of this. the wounded received
no proper attention until they reached
Jerusalem.
Casualties are mounting as fuller re-
ports arrive and now 1t seems sure that
the dead will number more than so and
the wounded about 100, number of
whom will die. Among the dead it
seems certain that there are at least
Is American boys sent here by their
parents to be trained for the rabbinat.
It Is necessary to point out that all
OF these victims are innocent orthodox
Jews, who have never done any harm to
the Arabs. They are in no sense
political.
Others. in Room Were Killed.
1--WE had no chance whatever against
such q mob. They stabbed US all sew
eral times and left all Of us, i've per-
sons, including Samarek, lying on the
floor dead.
"To make sure that they had killed
me they hit me over the head with q
cudgel after ] was stabbed. Somehow,
! didn't die. although all the others
did.
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