HEAVY CASUALTY LIST

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26216, 29 July 1946, Page 5

HEAVY CASUALTY LIST

JERUSALEM BOMB OUTRAGE MORE BODIES RECOVERED JERUSALEM, (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) July 27. Rescuers recovered from the hotel wreckage the bodies of Mr Geoffrey •Walsh, economic adviser to the Palestine Government, and Mr B. C- Gibbs, assistant secretary.- The latest casualty figures are 78 dead, 46 injured, and 28 missing. It is officially announced in London that the Jerusalem police to-day arrested 376 Jewish suspected terrorists throughout Palestine. Those arrested have been under police supervision for some time. They included a number of women. The arrests were made in the Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, and Haifa areas. The suspected terrorists have been sent to a special camp. A panic almost occurred in the centre

of Jerusalem to-day when it was rumoured that police headquarters would be blown up. The area surrounding the building was quickly cleared, but the streets refilled later when it was learned that the alarm was false. Rabbi Dr Mattuck, chairman of the governing body of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, welcoming delegates to its international conference in London, said all Jews condemned the *• terrorism perpetrated in Palestine by a small band of Jews. It shocks and grieves deeply that any Jew, however provoked, could be guilty of such brutal and destructive acts in a land

which is holy to the Jews and in the holiest centre of it. The latest outrage has filled us with horror- Those

guilty violated the Jewish religion and brought unjustified reproach to the Jewish people- Nevertheless, we voice sympathy and a sense of solidarity with the large majority of fellow Jews in Palestine who seek a just and peaceful solution.”