The headquarters of the Palestine Labour Federation, Fistadruth Haovdim, and the editorial and printing offices of the Hebrew Labour daily “Davar” were gutted in the big fire in the adjoining Tel Aviv garage (reported in yesterday’s J.T.A. Bulletin), where 43 motor-buses belonging to the Hamaavir Co-operative were destroyed.
The files have been saved, but they are in a terrible state of confusion.
The cause of the fire has not yet been discovered. When it was first detected four of the buses were already on fire. A theory is being advanced that the garage was set on fire by disgruntled cabdrivers resenting the competition of the motor-buses. No one suggests any connection with the new outrages like the murder of three of the workers of the Yadjur Labour settlement.
The bus service in Tel Aviv is again almost normal. The Hamaavir Co-operative, the Tel Aviv motor-bus concessionaire, has mobilised all types of vehicles in the vicinity and has brought in also a number from Jerusalem.
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