BRITISH CHALLENGE TO JEWS
PRODUCE PROOF IMPLICATING TROOPS (11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 23. Lieut.-Colonel D. Rees-Williams, Parliamentary Undersecretary to the Colonial Office, told the House of Commons today that 27 were killed, 32 seriously injured and 48 slightly injured in the Jerusalem bomb outrage yesterday. It is unofficially reported from Jerusalem that 51 were killed.
Col. Rees-Williams said that soon after the explosion an armoured car was seen travelling along the Jaffa road at great speed. It bore an identification number unknown to the police. “The responsibility has not been estaDlished, but the authorities find nothing to confirm the allegation in Palestine that members of the British security forces were involved,” he said. The Zionist authorities had been challenged to produce any evidence to support the unbelievable charge. Rejection of Jewish Demands Reuter’s correspondent in Jerusalem says the Palestine Government flatly rejected the Jewish agency’s demand that the British forces should withdraw from all Jewish areas in Jerusalem and that army and police vehicles should submit to search by Jews. More Britons were wounded today in continued “reprisal attacks” following yesterday’s bombing.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22569, 24 February 1948, Page 5
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