A RABBI’S STORY
OF MURDER AND LOOTING
(Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) LiiiibU Press Association. — By Llectrn
Telegraph.—Copyright.)
JERUSALEM, August 29
A' first-hand story is told by Rabbi Slonim of the massacres -at Hebron. The Chief of Police scouted the iden o' danger, and' declined to hear Slonim. Eighteen students olf Talmudic College barricaded themselves in the Rabbi’s son’s house to which the Arabs forced an entrance and butchered every one, including two women, who were fear fpllv ill-used and mutilated. One woman saved herself by smearing her dress with the others blood and feign ing death. The sacking continued till British police arrived and shot thirty looters.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1929, Page 5
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