Holy Land Horrors

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 755, 30 August 1929, Page 9

Holy Land Horrors

RABBI’S TERRIBLE STORY Women Fearfully 111-Used BUTCHERED ALONG WITH STUDENTS /'United P.A. —By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association t (United Service) Received 11 a.m. JERUSALEM. Thursday. A FIRST-HAND story is told by Rabbi Slonim of the massacres at Hebron. The chief of police scouted the idea of danger, and declined to hear Slonim. Eighteen students of the Talmudic College barricaded themselves in the Rabbi's son’s house, to which the Arabs forced entrance, and butchered every one. including two women, who were fearfully ill-used and mutilated.

One woman saved herself by

smearing her dress with the others’ ! blood, and feigning death. The sacking continued till the British police arrived and shot 30 of the looters. A Cairo message says travellers I who have arrived there from Palestine give graphic descriptions of the j rioting there. One describes how a : Cornishman named Carafata, com- i manding 30 police at Hebron, quelled j a force of several thousand villagers, i The latter had looted Jewish houses j and murdered the inmates, including i many children and infants. Carafata then collected the surviving Jews and escorted them to the police station. In another case six British policemen dispersed 300 rioting Arabs. In the course of the brawT an Arab made a sword thrust at one of the British policemen, who ducked in Ihe nick of time and then shot the aggressor. The savagery of the mobs was exemplified by numerous bodies hanging from windows. Investigation showed that their deaths resulted from knife wounds.