Religion: Jewry v. Islam

(2 of 2)

Twelve U. S. students were killed, 15 wounded when Arabs attacked the Slobodka Rabbinical College at Hebron, a city of 20,000. Thirty-two other Jews were slain in this raid.

The Palestine Government warned the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem he would be held responsible for further violence, summoned Sheiks of surrounding towns to conference.

¶ Far reaching were the effects of the Palestine fighting. To British advocates of a big navy it furnishes a potent argument in the fact that Prime Minister MacDonald, advocate of a smaller fleet, rushed to the Admiralty in the emergency. Empire-men consider gravely the possibility of a Holy War which might spread through Islam from Mesopotamia to Singapore.