News Brief

The Haganah today appealed to the Java of Pales-to remain calm and not to take the law into their own hands as tension mounted throughout the country in the wake of the worst explosion in recent Palestine history which took the lives of more than 50 Jews here yesterday. Meanwhile, David Ben iron and other members of the Jewish Agency executive, who had been meeting in continuous session la Tel Aviv since the blast in the Jewish business section of the city at 6 A.M. yesterday, returned to Jerusalem this afternoon to take whatever action be necessary in relation to the security situation.

Rescue operations continued all day yesterday, through the night and today and will go on tonight until it is certain that all victims have been removed from wreckage of several buildings, one of which collapsed completely following the explosion. Thus far, nine more bodies were recovered today, bringing the total of dead to 52 with nearly twice that many injured end wounded. A dozen more Briton and Jews were slain during the night in clashes between police and troops and b civil guards and underground forces.

Despite boasts from Arab sources that Arabs were responsible for the outrage, which left half the Jewish shopping area resembling London during the “blitz,” Jewish circles here continued to hold to the belief that British soldiers and policemen ere responsible for the deed. Eye-witness accounts, related to Haganah and Jewish cy investigators, were unanimous in stating that the explosion was caused by blowing up of two British Army trucks filled with explosives which were placed an Intersection of several Streets and then fused and set off by men dressed in uniform. The bombers fled the scene in a police armored car which had pretended them to the Intersection and which made off in the direction of security ?one “B.”

JEWS HOLD BRITISH RESPONSIBLE DESPITE GOVERNMENT’S DENIAL

Although an official government statement said it was “unbelievable” that liens could have been responsible for the deed, a Jewish Agency spokesman last night said that all available Information points to the British.

(In London today Conservative leader Anthony Eden asked the government for a statement on the Jerusalem bombing. Under-Secretary for Colonies David Bees-Williams told Eden and other M.P.’s that the government was investigating the incident, but that there were no indications that Britons were involved as the Jews of Palestine College. He added that he would mate a further statement to Commons this week. The Cabinet, meanwhile, is understood to have received a full report of the incident and the resultant situation la Palestine.)

The government today rejected a Jewish Agency demand that all British troops he withdrawn from the Jewish areas of the city and that army and police vehicles submit to search at Jewish civil guard posts before being permitted to enter the Jewish neighborhoods. The Agency also proposed that if British police were required enter Jewish sections on duty they be accompanied by strong detachments of Jewish rarity forces. In some areas Jewish defense units have already erected barbed wire and concrete “barriers making it Impossible for vehicles to enter major roads leading into the Jewish parts of the city.

IRGUN THREATENS BRITISH WITH “EXECUTION” IF THEY ENTER JEWISH AREAS

Yesterday immediately after the explosion when almost every able-bodied man in the city was rushed to the area to assist in the rescue operations or mount guard against possible, further attack, Britons were advised to leave the scene of he explosion where they were assisting in the excavating and remain out of Jewish areas for their own safety. Army authorities have forbidden soldiers off duty to visit the Jewish neighborhoods. The Irgun ordered all Britons to remain out of the Jewish areas under pain of “execution,” and it and the Stern Group last night carried the attack to the British, blowing up a military truck and attacking a police station.

Glass, mortar, wood and sections of furniture, as well as complete doors, were scattered for hundreds of feet around the spot where the two trucks were blown up. In the midst of the debris, sometimes over two feet high, long queues of volunteer workers passed bricks and debris from hand to hand as new sections were uncovered in the hunt for victims. The injured received first aid on the spot and the more seriously wounded were taken to hospitals.

Following is a partial list of those killed in the blast: Eliahu Fisher, Alisa Danal, Mr. and Mrs. Beracha-Castan and their daughter, Miriam; Malka Opatovsky, Shulamith Bauman, Rivka Parnes, Jacqueline Abutbul, a Mr. Philipovitz, Albert Sasson, Israel Gadiel, David Shiffer, Mina Hochberg, Ruth and Yoav Meyouchas, aged 12 and two, respectively, and their parents (the father’s name is Benzion, but the mother’s name is not yet known), Elimelech Mordetzky, four months old, Itzhak Moridetzky, four, Zehava Hollander, Haim Manfred Goldman, Haim Shoenberg, Rosi Weiss, who arrived on a visaless ship. The rest of the victims who were in the Amdursky Hotel at the tins of the explosion are still buried under the debris.