Flung into a melon market near the Central Police Station on the waterfront at Haifa, Palestine's chief port, an exploding bomb last week killed 14 Arabs. A riot developed. Blood-hungry Moslems, convinced that a Jew had hurled the missile, began to pummel and stone Jewish passersby. Shots were fired into the predominantly Arab crowd, increased the casualties to 21 Arabs killed, 92 wounded; six Jews killed, eleven wounded.
For the land that is holy to the Christian, Jewish and Moslem world these latest, severest incidents of Palestine's long terror struck two...
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