REMAINS BROUGHT TO

ISRAEL

IDENTIFICATION EFFORTS

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT

JERUSALEM (ISRAEL SIDE), AuG. 3

The remains of the 58 men, women, and children who lost their lives when the Israel airliner was shot down over Bulgaria were brought to Israel to-day. They had been taken by train from Sofia to Istanbul, and two aircraft of the Israel Air Force and one of El-Al Airlines carried them the rest of the way. They will probably be buried on Friday, most of them in a common grave, Jews and Christians together, there being no way of distinguishing individual remains.

It is understood that the burial services of both faiths will be- said at the graveside. Appeals for further efforts to establish identification have been so fervent, however, that army pathologists will make one more attempt to do so to-night.

Relatives of the victims, who included British and American subjects as well as Israelis, were at the airfield to see the sealed caskets from the first aircraft unloaded and placed in a hangar, and there was a pitiful scene as they searched in vain for some identifying sign on this or that casket. Representatives of the British and United States diplomatic and consular missions and most of the other diplomatic missions in Israel, including that of the Soviet Union, were among the watchers. The Bulgarian Legation was not represented.