A Jewess and an Arab died today of wounds suffered in yesterday’s bombing of the Palestine Broadcasting Company premises here. The victims were Mrs. May Weissenberg, 28, of South Africa, announcer on a children’s hour, and Adib Mansur, radio engineer.
Official were unable to explain how the terrorists had entered the heavily guarded building. The bombs, planted in the studio where Mrs. Weisenberg was broadcasting and in the control room, did heavy property damage. The children of several British high officials in Palestine were to have participated in the broadcast, but arrived possible death or serious injury.
A large delegation of Arab Sheikhs attended a reception in honor of the recently inducted Sephardic Chief Rabbi, Ben-Zion Uziel, given at Nathania by the Palestine Sephardic Council. A spokesman for the delegation expressed the hope that the Chief Rabbi’s accession would prove to be a blessing for all the country’s inhabitants, declaring that “we, too, pray to Allah, in honor of the Chief Rabbi that all the skies will clear in Palestine.”
The Government today lifted the ban on use of international telephone lines, which had been in effected for a year.
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