JEWS AMBUSHED AND KILLED
SEVENTY-FIFTH DEATH IN DISORDERS TWO ATTACKS BY ARABS (VNITBD r?.BSS ASSOCIATION —COPTBIOIT.) (Received August 16, 10.32 p.m.) JERUSALEM, August 16. Four out of five Jews, including two supernumerary constables, were killed in an ambush at Haifa last night. This makes a total of 75 Jews killed since the disorders began. Four Jews were killed and one was wounded in an Arab attack at Safed, where many Jews lost their lives in the disturbances in 1929, The assault was launched with shots on a military patrol from Mount Canaan, after which a fusillade was fired in the Jewish quarter. Raiders burst into a house and bombed a room in which a family of six were asleep. The father and son, aged fife and the daughter aged eight, were killed instantly. A daughter, aged six, succumbed later. The mother was also wounded, after which the shooting was renewed.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21863, 17 August 1936, Page 9
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