MASSACRE IN TIBERIAS
REBELS ATTACK JEWS
HOUSE-TO-HOUSE AFFAIR
(Received October 4, 9.40 a.m.)
HAIFA, October 3,
A hundred rebels attacked the Jewish quarters in Tiberias and perpetrated a house-to-house massacre, killing 21 Jews, including seven children.
Four of the rebels were killed and many on both sides were wounded in subsequent fighting. The rebels made a surprise attack arid shot a Jewish watchman, slaughtered men, women, and children, and set fire to a synagogue and to Government buildings.
Ten Arabs were killed and four wounded when a land mine exploded at Jaffa.
Over a hundred Arabs have been killed in the past two days as a result of encounters with Government forces.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 82, 4 October 1938, Page 11
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