Tel Aviv, July 23.
Fresh and more serious outbreaks were expected to follow the bomber of the largest hotel here today a thousands of Jews agitated for retaliatory measures. The bomb which exploded under the hotel created n panic, demolishing a motor car and injuring fifteen Jews, The explosion in the heart of the all-Jewish city caused grave concern since the act must have been carried Out by persons well aware of the hotel plans.
Jews were aroused over this attad on their prize city. It was the frs! affair of its kind here during the present wave of terrorism.
The person or persons who placed the bomb were accredited with showing great daring in attempting such an act in a city with such an overwhelming Jewish majority.—United Press, Jerusalem. July 24.
Sixteen hundred suspects are now held in custody by the authorities after extensive cleanup operations were conducted by the police in the Tulkarem, Nablus and Djenin r gions, These operations are still being continued as efforts are made to restore and maintain law and order In the old city of Jerusalem, the Arab population are staging a protest strike and the populace of the Nablus district are following this example.
Meanwhile,—terroristic activity burst out in Tel Aviv again as a bomb was thrown in the centre of that Jewish "model town". Altogether, there were 22 persons injured and seven of these are in serious condition.—Havas.
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