The Archive · 1930

Death Sentence on Arab Rioters

To-day five Arabs were to death and three acquitted of charges of murder during the ant riots in Hebron last yes accused wer) also ordered to pay, jointly, £1,000 to the depend ents of the murdered: persons.

'These are the first death' sen: tences in connection with the disorders at Hebron, An Arab delegation, headed by Kasem Pasha, and including the Mayor of Jerusalem and the Grand Mufti, the religious head of the Mohammedans in Palestine, left for London to-day to present their case to Great Britain in connection with the publication of the report of the Commission of Inquiry into the disorders in Palest 'A large crowd of Arabs gave an enthusiastic farewell to the dele-

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