1929 Hebron Massacre: newspaper s
12 AMERICANS KILLED BY ARABS IN HEBRON AS BRITISH TROOPS REACH JERUSALEM; ARMED MOSLEMS THREATEN NEW ATTACK; BROOKLYN STUDENT SLAIN Is One of Fifty Victims in Sudden Attack on Rabbinical College. TOWNS LOOTED AND BURNED Entire Colonies Are Wiped Out as Peasants Join Rioters in Outlying Sections. MARTIAL LAW IS ENFORCED Death Toll Now More Than 100 --Consulate Guards American Women and Children. 12 American Students Killed. Hebron Death Toll Is Fifty. Acts to Protect Americans. ARABS KILL TWELVE YOUNG AMERICANS Eyewitness Tells of Attack. Terrible Panic Follows. Crude Weapons Used. Herbron Was Undefended. Wexler was Chicago Youth. By Joseph M. Levy. Staff Correspondent of the New York Times. By Wireless. Aug. 26, 1929 August 26, 1929, Page 1 JERUSALEM, Aug. 25.--It is believed the crisis has passed in the Holy City with the arrival at 4 o'clock this afternoon of the first detachment of 650 British soldiers from Egypt with a full staff of officers, who are expected to take over the c...