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Rublee, Taylor Confer with Lord Winterton on Refugees

August 19, 1938
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George Rublee, director of the Intergovernmental Refugee Bureau, and Vice-Chairman Myron C. Taylor conferred at length today with Lord Winterton, refugee committee chairman. The bureau will officially open its offices here on Monday.

A bomb thrown into the Tel Aviv boundary area from Jaffa tonight killed an eight-year-old Jewish girl, Shabbatai Pryenta, and dangerously wounded her brother, Isaac, 12, Esther Bivas, 22, and Shalom Chud, 32. A fourth Jew, Eliahu Cohen, was slightly wounded. Two British soldiers were reported killed and an officer and seven private is wounded this afternoon in a battle with Arab rebels near Acre.

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