Vicksburg Evening Post · Vicksburg, Mississippi · 28 August 1929
CP-1929-005
HORROR OF FIRE, SWORD SPREADS IN PALESTINE
RISING SPIRIT OF UNREST AMONG FANATICAL ARABS
Associated Press, Jerusalem
Transcribed from the clipping
“These fixed the dead and wounded in the last five days fighting between Jews and Moslem Arabs at 143 and 426 respectively. Divided as follows: Killed, 46 Moslems, 4 Christians, 93 Jews. Wounded, 118 Moslems, 39 Christians, 269 Jews. It was added an accurate check of casualties was impossible… Hebron, scene Saturday of a massacre in which Arabs literally cut to pieces Jewish men, women and children.”
Context added by this archive
August 1929. The archive holds six American papers from this fortnight, in six registers: a Mississippi daily, a Texas daily’s map, a Communist photo spread, a Jewish weekly’s front page, a Virginia column of wire datelines, and a Buffalo weekly a week later. This one counts Christians as their own column, which almost nothing later in this archive does. Beneath the banner, a photograph of Mrs. Louise McPhetridge Thaden receiving a floral wreath at the Cleveland airport.
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"HORROR OF FIRE, SWORD SPREADS IN PALESTINE," Vicksburg Evening Post, 28 August 1929. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1929-005. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1929-005
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