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Arabs Again Bomb Home of Nashashibi

December 29, 1938
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Terrorists for the third time today bombed the house of Diane Nashashibi, A relative of Fakhri Bey Nashashibi, mayor of Bethlehem and leader of the moderate Arab faction. The explosion damaged the building but inflicted no casualties. A Jew gravely wounded in a terrorist attack Tuesday succumbed here today. British authorities posted al=2500 (about $2,500) reward for Louis Le Bouviep, British Manager of the Ottoman Bank of Jerusalem, believed kidnaped by terrorists on the Jerusalem-Jericho road last Monday. Le Bouvier incurred the enmity of Palestine terrorists by revealing that terrorist funds had been placed under fictitious names in his bank. Four British soldiers were wounded when terrorists ambushed a British detachment near Nablus last night.

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