The French Ambassador I11 Cairo this week-end made representations to the Egyptian Government, over the detention of 18 French Jews who were arrested following the entry of Egyptian troops into Palestine on May 13.
Reports reaching here say that several of the detained Jews–allegedly the leaders of a protest hunger strike which the detainees staged last week–have been separated from the rest of the imprisoned Jews.
(The New York Times, in a dispatch from Geneva, quoted a Swiss newspaper as stating that the death of Stephen Haas–the Philadelphia Jew who was reportedly fatally stoned by an Egyptian mob in Cairo–took place “in an Egyptian police station in the presence of his wife, who was forcibly prevented from aiding her husband as he bled on the floor whore he had been flung by police.”
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