JEWISH LEADER FEARS FOR HOLY CITY

Grey River Argus, 29 March 1948, Page 5

JEWISH LEADER FEARS FOR HOLY CITY

Tim Jewish Chief Rabbi, Doctor Herzog, in a broadcast, -said that the Holy City was facing an imminent catastrophe. He said that the nations which during the United Nations’ discussions were so concerned over the Holy City’s fate, had not raised a finger to guard it against danger. Neither had great Christian leaders made an effort to protect it. A Jewish Agency spokesman suggested that the 10,000 Danish and Norwegian troops now stationed in Northern Germany should garrison Jerusalem when the British mandate expires on May 15. The spokesman added that this would prevent the forthcoming “battle of Jerusalem,” guarantee life and property and protect the holy places of all religions. “It is our duty to warn the world what may happen in Jerusalem through no fault of the Jews, if something is not done,” he added. TRUCE FOR CHRISTIAN OBSERVANCE. Renter’s correspondent says that Arabs and Jews observed a tacit truce in Jerusalem to-day while a procession of Roman Catholic clergy and a few hundred laymen walked Via Delorosa (the Way of the Cross) through the narrow cobbled streets of the Old City. The procession was small compared with other years. No British troops participated. British troops found the bodies of 16 Jews, killed by Arabs in an attack between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.