Reports received here today indicated that a number of Jews have fled from the anti-European rioting in Congo with the worst situation existing in Luluabourg where the atmosphere is tense.
At Elizabethville, where most Congo Jews reside, the situation was reported as not alarming. Chief Rabbi Levy has not left Elizabethville. The situation in Stanleyville was reported, in telephonic communications received in Brussels today, to be calm. The Jewish population was not molested and there has been no pillaging.
Information from Leopoldville, an area of considerable disorder, was meager except for a radio message that Maurice Alhadeff, president of the Leopoldville Jewish community, and his staff were “all right.” A number of Jews were reported to be stranded in Luluabourg where the situation was tense and the entire white population assembled at the airport awaiting transportation.
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