Palestine Jews Strike in Sympathy with “herzl” Refugees; Two Victims Buried in Hai

Jews throughout Palestine tonight went on a ##rike from 6 p.m. to midnight proclaimed by the Jewish National Council in sympath####th the 2,500 visaless Jewish immigrants apprehended aboard the blockade runner ##eodor Herzl Sunday night. Earlier, the entire Jewish population of Haifa stopped####rk for two hours during the funeral of two Jews killed when a British naval party####rced its way aboard the vessel.

The victims were Ahron David Bayerman, 24. of Czechoslovakia, and Pinchas ##iss, 23, of Hungary. Bayerman was killed when he was struck squarely by an ex##cding tear gas bomb, while Weiss was shot during the general melee when the immi##rants attempted to hurl the British off the vessel.

After the vessel was brought into port this morning, the flag draped bodie####re lowered over the side while the refugees recited the prayer for the dead. An ##mmigrant guard of honor carried the bodies on their shoulders down the dock where ##ey were handed over to representatives of a burial society. They were interred in ## cametery near the victims of the Struma disaster and others who died attempting to ##ter Palestine. The wives of both the men, who also arrived on the Herzl, attended## ##e funeral.When the immigrant vessel was towed into the harbor a large blue-and-white ##treamer was flying from its mast. Inscribed on it was: “The Germans exterminated ##ur children and families. You English will not kill our hopes.”About 1,200 of the immigrants were transshipped to three deportation vessel####nd departed to Cyprus tonight. The remainder will be transshipped tomorrow.