It was announced officially that 27 Arabs were killed in yesterday’s engagement between a rebel band and british troops at Shafaram. in another clash at Ramallah, troops and warplanes killed 40 bandsmen. three arab rebels were killed and six were captured when a third band attacked a detachment of the royal scots regiment between Kalkillia and Tulkarem.
Five Jews, three of them constables, were wounded in clashes in other parts of the country. a band ambushed a group of Jewish laborers escorted by constables, near bath Shlomo, wounding two of the constables. Constable Moshe Melnick, 30, was shot and slightly injured while motorcycling near ness Ziona. Eliahu Gutkin, 15, was shot and seriously wounded on the Jaffa-Tel Aviv border. Joseph Trabloff, 35, an Oriental Jew, was shot and seriously wounded while walking in jerusalem’s commercial center.
a military court today sentenced abraham Kotik, 25, a jew, to death for carrying arms in violation of emergency regulations. kotik was seized at a Zionist-revisionists club in Tel Aviv on Aug. 20 in possession of a satchel containing three revolvers, 400 rounds of ammunition and a stick of dynamite. if executed, he will be the second jew to die under army court sentence.
If you want to read more about the Tiberias Massacre, the blogger YidwithLid has excerpts from the NY Times version of the event on his website.
