Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-26
Britain Rushes Warships and
Troops After Government,
Caught UnaWares, Faces
Arab Revolution Threat.
U. CALLS ON ENGLAND
TO PROTECT SUBJECTS
Resumption of Savage Raids
Throughout Holy Land Is Cause
for Alarm After Jewish Students
Die in Defense of school-Brit-
ish Soldiers Will Use Force.

BY the Associated Press.
Severe fighting between Arabs
and Jews over right of religious
worship at the Wailing Wall
spread today into remote quarters
of Palestine, after terrorizing
Jerusalem and it's environs with
three days of bloodshed and vio-
lence.
Twelve American Jewish stu
dents we're on the death roll,
which authorities of the biblical
land of peace vainly attempted to
estimate as reports of new clashes
came in.
Partial List Of Casualties.
Incomplete casualty reports to the
State Department today from Paul
Knabenshue, the American consul gen.
eral in Jerusalem. sated that the fol-
lowing American students were among
those killed in Hebron:
Jacob C. Wexler of Chicago. So.
Benjamin Hurwitz Of New York City.
Wounded
Moses Feivel Mitovin, A. Dow Menkin,
Eliezer Harbater. Moses Harbater.
No addresses were given, but 1t was
said the last two mentioned were in
Jerusalem with their parents.
Refugees escaping from Palestine to
Beirut, Syria, in French-mandated ter
ritory. said the Arab attacks against
Jewish communities had assumed the
character of an open Arab revolt against
the government. 60
MaSsacres were reported to have oc-
Cured at HaHa, where troop train
was attacked by Arabs this morning.
Some Of the troops were disarmed.
Fighting continued in the center of the
town. with three persons killed and
many wounded, but Jewish defenders
C"rmel suburb.
Government Offices Attacked.
At Jaffa last night Arabs attacked in
force the government offices. They
were driven off by British police in a
conflict in which five persons were
killed and 80 wounded.
The violence of the outburst, Of which
the causes had long been observed, how
ever, seemed to have taken the British
governing body in Palestine by surprise
1t was persistently rumored in Lon
con that Lord Reading, former viceroy
of India and influential Jewish noble
man, would be charged with a special
mission in Palestine in the near future
He held lengthy conference with
Premier Macdonald.
All members Of the Zionist executive
committee were summoned to London
for an emergency session. Louis Lipsky.
president of the Zionist Organization of
America, will represent American jew
ish interests at the meeting.
British warships and troops were
rushed to Palestine from all strategic
points In the Mcd.t -rranean.
From Cairo, Egypt, it was reported
that the casualties on both sides during
the fighting since Friday had been
much greater than was indicated in
news dispatches by way of London.
Troops from Egypt hastily departed by
big troop-carrying airplanes or by rail-
way.
New York Jews Plan Protest.
A government censorship on news
and private dispatches from Palestine
cloaked the actual progress Of events In
Jerusalem.
Washington received official con-
firmation of the deaths Of the IL Amer
lean Jewish students in the Rabbinical
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