Considerable uneasiness among the Jewish population exists here, as a result of new Jewish victims in a series of terrorist outrages.
At Setiff a grenade was thrown into the Bagatelle cafe, wounding a number of persons including Joseph Atlanti, a disabled veteran of the first World War. A plastic bomb was also thrown recently into an apartment in the Bab el-Oued quarter of Algiers wounding a Jewish property owner, Prosper Atlan.
An Algiers Jewish merchant was also shot and died of his wounds. And late last week, a grenade was thrown into a cafe in the Bab ol-Oued quarter injuring two Jews.
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