Responsibility for the killing of 54 Jews in the Jerusalem bombing of February 22 has been assumed by the “Palestine Branch of the British League of Ex-Servicemen” in a manifesto mailed from Jerusalem to several members of Parliament, it was reported here last night. The British section of the league recently merged with Sir Oswald Mosley’s fascist Union Movement. Mosley today denied that the League was involved in the Jerusalem outrage.
The manifesto, mailed in Jerusalem Monday, says: “In the Church of the Holy sepulcher our members took a sacred vow to dedicate themselves to a crusade against the Jews. Accordingly, on the 22nd day of February we attacked the centre of Jews in Jerusalem with explosives, inflicting heavy casualties on the guttersnipes of whom ## were killed and 200 were wounded. We take pride in announcing no distinction was ads between the cowardly, tenebrous Haganah gangsters and the murderous Sternists. Jewish women and children, old and young, they will all be annihilated.”
The discussion on Palestine which was scheduled to have taken place yesterday at a meeting of the Laborite member of the British parliament was postponed tonight Wednesday, it was reported here today.
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