Twenty-five Arabs and Jews, including a number of women and children, were wounded in three separate bomb outrages here today as Jewish leaders decided at a conference to stage a “political demonstration” against the Palestine Government’s failure to suppress Arab terrorism which in the last five days has claimed six Jewish lives.
Seventeen persons received wounds in a Jaffa Road bombing near the Zion Cinema here. Three of the wounded were taken to hospitals. Two Arabs were arrested.
Four Arabs were wounded by a bomb hurled into an Arab cafe on Mamilah Street. Four others were injured, one of them seriously, by a bomb thrown in the Romema quarter.
Delegates representing all important Jewish organizations in Palestine this afternoon decided to hold the political demonstration, but left it to the Jewish National Council to plan its form. It was expected a general strike would be called for Sunday afternoon.
The conference endorsed a statement by the executive of the Jewish Agency for Palestine which expressed mistrust of the Palestine administration and urged a special drive for security.
The conference was attended by representatives of the Council, the chief rabbinate, the Tel Aviv municipality, the Agudath Israel, industrialists, the Farmers’ Association and other groups.
A cable, sent by London headquarters of the New Zionist Organization, urged the delegates to create a Supreme Council for Security. The council, the cable suggested, would be given full authority on all questions of security, and would comprise representatives of all Jewish groups in Palestine.
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