The New York Times · 13 April 1924

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Two Arab Tribes Fight Battle Over Palestine Well

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JERUSALEM, April 12 (Jewish Telegraph Agency).—The old quarrels over water wells in the times of Abraham, as recorded in the Bible, were recalled by a serious quarrel which broke out today between two Arab tribes in the neighborhood of the village of Valadzi.

In a dispute over the rights to the only water well in the vicinity the two tribes engaged in a battle which resulted in the death of one person and the wounding of eight others. The authorities have started an investigation and sent a force of police into the district.

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