TENSION MOUNTING
HALF SENIOR OFFICIALS DEAD Received Wednesdav, 12.20 a.m. LONDON, July 23. Tension is mounting ihroughout Palestine witli Arabs chasing and Ktoning Jews wlio appear to be panicking, states the Exchange Telegrapli 's Jerusalem correspondent. Britisli troops, working i'everishlv tlirmigliout the night, removed more than 200 tons of rubble of the wreeked hotel wing, slill seeking the bodies of the 50 missing soldiers. They have comoleted half the. job of shifling the rubble. (leneral Barker said that: for a long time he had wanted to take over the whole hotel in order to obtain absolute security and prevent unauthorised persons wai king round in Ihe vicinity of headquarters. He expressed deep re gret for the deaths of the men who had give.n their lives for the betterme.nt of Palestine. General Barker added that more than hftlf the British senior oflieials had gone and also very important (iles reeording a quarter of a eenlury's work. The. palestine Bpsti . ah., EngUsh jiayfi/ f/-f'he jviiV1ht1>"st\ 1 IvA'lf 4'ffi d'ft ''bfhmunily eotnes from wit.lun.- Tn tlvis fmil mnrder there ea ti be no exonera t ion. ' ' 'Pho oxtreme lef'i-wing tlebrew paper Mislmiar, savs: The vile murder is a sabotage of Zionisl efforts.
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Chronicle (Levin), 24 July 1946, Page 5
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