ANOTHER BUILDING WRECKED
Received Tuesday, 10.5 a.m. JERUSALEM, Jan. 5. The Semiramis Hotel, Jerusalem, reported to • have been the headquarters . of two Arab national youth organisations— Najjada and Futuwah — was blown up early this morning. The dead are reported . to number "20, while the Royal Engineers are searching for survivors a'nd removing the rubble •with bulldozers and acetylene torches. The explosion occurred during. a heavy tropical storm. The hotel was of three storeys and built of stone. The Spanish Consul,' Senor Manuel Salazar, who is related to the Duke of Alba, was among the 20 killed in the explosion, says the British United Press coiTespondent.
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 January 1948, Page 5
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