Syrian bunkers surpassed Maginot Une
Fortifications built by the Syrians against Israel were more extensive than those of the famous Maginot Line built by the French prior to World War II.
Detailed facts repealing the enormity of Syrian preparations including the vast quantities of Russian armaments which the Arabs used to fire down upon Israeli fields and villages, were reported by Roy Jacques, profm-inent Vancouver radio newsman.
During a special interview with The Bulletin on his recent return from the Middle East, the C-FUN Action Line commentator described the network of underground bunkers .which honeycombed for continuous under-groimd miles and miles the heights overlooking the Galilee and for mahy miles to the north.
"I saw literally hundreds of
bunkers dug into the hillsides in Syria and my feeling was that these were planned and used for offensive purposes because all the bunkers were built facing over and looking down on Israeli territory. Many were manned with heavy guns and tanks trained on fields and kibbutzim of Israel which were without any sign of fortification," Mr. Jacques said.
He saw damaged villages and scorched fields, a regular form of harassment by the Syrians. Phosphorous-type shells were fired from the Syrian Heights as soon as the fields were seen to be^ in crop.
Good as the Israeli air force is, it could not have rooted out, even over many months of protracted bombing, such deeply entrenched btmkers and offensive systems as Syria had built against Israel, the Vancouver eyewitness stated.
Bodies of Syrian soldiers were found inside these bunkers, which
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had been locked by fleeing officers.
Mr. Jacques saw massive quantities of Russian armaments anc boxes of live grenades and ammunition, evidence that the bunkers had been evacuated with great speed. He picked up a manual in one bunker giving instructions to Syrian soldiers on the use of Russian weapons.
Passing through a Druse village in Syria, the Canadian newsman encountered a very happy people who hoped the Syrian administration would not return. They told him that after only two weeks of Israeli occupation, conditions were already so much better for them.
Mr. Jacques paid special tribute to the Israeli Defense Forces, noting, "I don't think I've seen a finer army in the world. This is a true people's army composed of men of all walks of life who,
while on duty, are highly disciplined but become friendly and relaxed off duty."
The C-FUN commentator said that although he had seen the armies of all the great powers, including the Russian, it was only in Israel that he had personally seen high ranking officers pitching in with every manner cf task that had to be done. "At Rafah, I saw a colonel fixing his own vehicle and a rogimontal sergeant-major carrying his own load, scenes you would not find anywhere else.
*'And though they had been victorious to a degree unprecedented in modern warfare," he declared, *'the intriguing truth is that nowhere did I hear anyone gloating or celebrating their great victory. On the contrary, many were asking the question, why was this necessary?"
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Jews living in Arab lands
Secler named naiional exec.
EGYPT mS6NJ^ Try for new N. Africa exodus
GENEVA (Reuters)—An Am<
erican Jewish leader said here recently about 500 or 600 Jewish men are being held in prison camps in Cairo and Alexandria.
Zacharia Shuster, European director of the American Jewish
B.B. HEAD SEiKSUN mESmATlON
WASEONGTON (AP) — The head of B*nai B'rith, the Jewish service organization, has urged the United Nations to investigate the plight of Jews living in some Arab countries, contending many are victims of brutal treatment. The.B.B. head charged that Egypt had refused to allow the Bed Cross to investigate the situation of Egyptian Jews. Dr. William A. Wexlei: of Atlanta said he had eye-witness information that Jews were killed and tortured in Egypt, Syria and Iraq following the outbreak of war in the Middle East.
Wexler told a B'nai B'rith meeting recently that 50 Jews were killed in Syrian mob riots.
He. also reported that up to 450 Jewish men jailed in Cairo and Alexandria were tortured and denied food and water for several days.
Wexler also revealed that Syria's 4,000 Jews had been subjected over the past four years to night arrests and other harassments and that their freedom to travel and to earn a living has been severely restricted. He charged that similar restrictions had been imposed on the 2,000 Jews still living in Iraq.
Committee, arrived here to discuss the plight of Jews in North Africa following the recent Arab-Israeli war.
Shustpr said he was having talks with officials of "humanitarian organizations" here on the possibility of evacuating Jews from North Africa. He declined to Identify the organizations, but said he was not trying to deal with governments.
Shuster said about 170 Jews had been allowed to leave Egypt, but all had Italian or Greek passports. Most of the 3,000 remaining were stateless persons and could not get visas to leave the country.
Women and children were not in prison camps—only the men were held.
Shuster said some of the 170 who arrived by sea in Naples and Nicosia had been "kept in jail and maltreated—^some of them had broken fingers."
In Libya, Jews were "the victims of mob attacks" and none of them was allowed to leave, he said.
Boycott Moroccan Jewry
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Jewish
businesses are being severely affected by an unofficial boycott o "Zionists" in Morocco, leaders o the  50,000-strcng  Jewish community here reported.
They said the boycott, launched after the Middle East war by the opposition Istiqlal party, is being particularly felt by Jewish hairdressers, clothing and shoe stores and movie houses. Jewish doctors and lawyers are also affected.
Jewish leaders said the boycott is indiscriminately anti-Jewish.
SYRIAN MOBS K9U 57 JEWS
ANKARA — Syrian Jewish refugees fleeing here across the border reported that 200 Jews in Qamishli, Syria, were detained and 57 were killed by mobs of young Syrians who attacked -them. Qamishli is on the border opposite the Turkish town of iN'usaybin.
Red Cross urged to alleviate suffering
GENEVA (AP) — The World Jewish Congress has petitioned with urgent appeal to the International Red Cross urging it to ake "all possible measures without delay to alleviate the sufferings of Jews in Arab countries."
A statement said refugees arriving in Europe have re|^ the mass arrest, mistreatment i
imprisonment of all Jewish males in Egypt "and anti-Jewish excesses in Libya resulting in many deaths."
It appealed to the Red Cross to take action "especially in Egypt" and provide humanitarian
Passistance and effective protection tV^fWf-M> ttiat country.
DR. JOHN SECTER
PROmNENT VANCOUVER Zionist leader, Dr. John Secter, has been named a national vice-president of the Zionist Organization of Canada. Dr. Secter is a former president for British Columbia, and a former District vice-president of the Zionist Organization of Canada.
Casualties grow
JERUSALEM—Revised list of Israeli casualty figures from the June Arab-Israel war were released with total dead now 730 and 2,800 wounded. Previous figures were 679 dead, 2,500 wounded.
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French factory
JERUSALEM—French Jewish inventor and jet aircraft manufacturer, Josef Shidlovsky signed an agreement with Premier Esh-kol providing for establishment of a $3,000,000 jet engine factory in Israel to be supplied half by the governments of Israel and France and half by Shidlovsky.
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Egyptian stamp
TEL AVIV—Philatelic experts in London reported release by the Egyptian Government of a "victory stamp" depicting Nasser and Arab masses with Israel shown in flames. They noted it takes about two months to design and print stamp issues indicating the stamp was apparently printed before last mr/nth's Middle East
war.
Visit with Pope
JERUSALiEM—Head of Greek Catholics in Israel, Archbishop George Hakim, returned from a visit with Pope Paul VI in Rome stating that the Pope had told him, "We shall do nothing against Israel."
Uixm against Israeli witlidrawal without guarantees of peace
NEW YORK — Former Vice-resident Richard Nixon who recently returned from Israel, spoke at an informal welcome uncheon tendered him by Zionist Organization of America under chairmanship of its president, Jacques Torczyner.
Nixon said that Israel should not and cannot withdraw from the occupied territory until permanent peace be achieved, adding that this territory must serve as a bargaining point in its negotiations with the Arabs. Introducing the former vice-
president to a distinguished group of some 100 leaders, Torczyner referred to Nixon's friendship for Israel since 1956 when Israel was threatened with sanctions following the Sinai Campaign.
In his address, Mr. Nixon, who visited Israel following a tour of Europe, Africa and Asia reported the following major observations in most countries he visited: 1) a unanimous respect and admiration for feat of Israeli army even among foes; 2) no (Continued on Page 2) See NIXON