Anti-Semitic Incidents in France

A self-proclaimed anti-Semitic organization has claimed responsibility for a bomb which caused slight damage to the offices of the French daily "Le Monde" early Sunday morning. The building was closed at the time. A few windows were broken. There were no injuries.

An organization calling itself The League of French Fighters Against the Jewish Domination of France later telephoned French news agencies to say the attack was carried out to protest "the role played by the French press in the Jewish tyranny over the country by releasing only partisan and lying information."

The explosion was the latest in a series of similar attacks carried out over the past few weeks against news media and various Jewish installations. None of the attacks, except the one on a Jewish student canteen in Paris, caused injury or serious damage, but their repetition is considered "grave" by the French police.

On April 28 two small incendiary bombs which failed to go off were found outside a Jewish home for refugees and elderly people. On April 27 a memorial in honor of Georges Mandel, a French-Jewish minister murdered by the Nazis, was dam aged by a time bomb; and on March 31 an incendiary device which failed to go off was found outside the morning paper "Le Matin."

Police sources say they have no close to the mysterious organization which has claimed responsibility for all of these attacks. Police officials say the League of French Fighters might actually consist of 2-3 people on the fringes of the extreme right. Jewish organizations and Chief Rabbi Jacob Kaplan have called on the authorities to use all means at their disposal to apprehend and try the culprits.