Fire From Barham Said to Have Killed Many Near Haifa and Beisan.

GALILEE SECTION IN PERIL

Advancing Tribesmen Menace Tiberias—Safed Victims Put at 70 Killed and Wounded.

3 BRITISH OFFICERS KILLED

Keen Anxiety Felt in London, Awaiting News of Air Attacks on the Invaders.

With relative quiet restored to Palestine yesterday, people and officials looked anxiously to the north, where a force of Syrian Arabs has crossed the border to march on Jerusalem. British planes are searching for them.

London also is anxious over the Syrian invasion, and the Colonial Office reports that Bedouin tribes are moving into Palestine from three directions.

The London Standard correspondent in Cairo reports ferocious fighting near Beisan and Haifa, with the battleship Barham firing and killing many Arabs.

Victims of the Safed massacre are now reported as twenty dead, thirty wounded and many more believed to have perished in burning buildings. Levi Heller, 17, of New York, has died of wounds.

Galilee is reported in great danger from advancing Arabs.

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September 1, 1929 | © The New York Times

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