The Jewish community of France today called on Christians Moslems and Jews to pray for peace for North Africa. The appeal was signed by Grand Rabbi Jacob Kaplan Baron Guy de Rothschild, Edmond Fleg and others.
Calling upon those who bear responsibility for the present situation to make a “supreme effort for conciliation, the appeal notes that the “North African conflict has taken an infinitely tragic turn” and that the “fratricidal struggle is proceeding among those whose traditional task was the building of a fraternal civilization.”
In Tunis, Prince Hassine Bey, heir to the Bey of Tunis, has received Grand Rabbi Meir Cohen of Tunis and leaders of the Kehillah. He assured them of his sympathetic attitude toward Jewish citizens of Tunisia. Rabbi Cohen blessed the Prince before the delegation took leave of him.
In Casablanca, Morocco, a Jewish tobacconist was shot and killed in the old Medina quarter of the city. A Jewish girl was wounded by a stray bullet when gunmen shot and killed a Moslem policeman. A Jewish grocer was badly wounded in the thigh when he was shot while walking in a street of the old Medina quarter.
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