Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-15

worst of the trouble. They spent two
weeks In great anxiety, guarding their
homes every night as well as they
could, though having only hall dozen
firearms. Fortunately they were never
attacked. The Americans there tncluoe
David HICKMAN. his wife and six chill
dren, from New York, and family
named Mandelmann, from Brooklyn.
Number Of Isolated Colonies.
The road to Jaffa and Haifa is very
bad and goes through number OF iso-
lated Jewish colonies surrounded by
Arab areas One of these Arab stretches,
which bears the worst reputation for
turbulence. is Stulkarren. But when
rny car drove through there the Ian
guild inhabitants didn't even stop eating
watermelon.
There are Americans scattered all
through this area. In some cases-as
Rothschild Colony, Benyamina--they've
taken Palestinian citizenship, but these
cases are rare. verified the where
abouts of the Americans in this coast
district and found that all intended to
remain.
At zikhron Jacob strong Rothschild
colony near Haifa, found a jovial old
chap named p. A. Graf. who has lived
there % years. He showed me two
American flags which. he said. had
been extremely useful all these years in
times OF trouble. Zikhron Jacob was
unattached this time, but the guard has
been carefully kept every night.
Haifa itself contains a large number
OF AmericanS all safe and cO1nd all
though there were several cases of Seri-
Gus property damage. Thirty-five stu
dents OF the American Boys School
there are now doing volunteer work at
HadaSsah Hospital, taking care Of the
wounded brought In from the entire
area and also from Safed.
Fourteen of these youths were making
hiking trip over Mount Hermon when
the trouble started. They had several
anxious days before they got safely back
to Haifa.
Acre Road Is Unsafe.
I left Haifa yesterday for Safed, pass
ing ahead of a British food convoy.
The police pronounced the north road
by Acre unsafe, and the chauffeur, a
Christian Arab, heartily concurred.
Therefore we took the southern road,
tLIOuSH TNdIdTcIn ana IlDeT1aS.
The atmosphere of this northern area
is still bad and met no ordinary pas
senger trafic anywhere, only armored
cars. When arrived at Safed my
makeshift nag Immediately collected a
crowd Of American citizens and others
who wished to tell their stories to q
consular representative.
The ancient Hebrew Holy City was
one of the worst sufferers in this out
break. Some of the families there are
destitute. The British authorities have
assumed the task Of supplying food for
these from Haifa, but conditions re-
garding clothing and sleeping quarters
are very bad. Between so and so houses
IN the Jewish quarter have been burned.
Jacob Richmond of Brooklyn and his
wife and six children are all safe, but
they lost most of their possessions. They
had farmhouse at Einzeitin, q small
farm colony near Safed, and also a
house in the city. The farmhouse was
looted and burned and the city house
was looted.
All Houses Looted and Burned,
Richmond took me to Einzeitin to see
the ruined settlement. Every house
there was looted, then burned. The
whole colony Is now destroyed
Most OF these houses belonged to Amer
leans as private property, unconnected
with Zionist holdings.
Abraham Norinsky of Brooklyn, a young
farmer. When asked him what he had
saved, he remarked cheerfully, Nothing
but this shirt"
Israel Medofsky and his wife. who
have three sons in the United States
Government service. two at the lega-
ton at Bern and one at the embassy
In Berlin. are safe and well, but they
have been through a period of extreme
alarm.
One Of the worst aspects of the Safed
affair was the period of six days watt
ing, during which the Jewish popula-
for protection.
Solomon Lamport's sister, Fanny Rose
Paltrowitz, and her niece, Hannah
Heller. were both at Safed when the
outbreak came. They we're escorted
safely to Haifa three days ago.
Between Safed and Tiberias lies the
colony Migdal in a very exposed posi-
ton. There are six American families
here and two suffered property loss.
Moses Feldman, New York. saw his
farm storehouse, containing all his i'm
plementS, burned.
The inhabitants Of Migdal-the bib
lical Magdala-are concentrated now
at the new American Hotel, the Mag
dala. which was designed as a Winter
resort and overlooks the Sea Of Galilee.
In the plain of Jezreel, beneath Naz-
areth, two large colonies, Balfouria and
Afule, both founded with American
money. have passed through a period
of panic without the loss of anything
more important than a few cattle Their
crops suffered a good deal Of damage,
however.
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