Jerusalem, July 14, Railway saboteurs to-day damaged the main line west of Jerusalem and the railway bridge near Tui Karem, using explosive charges.
Four houses in an Arab village ear Jaffa were dynamited by British troops this afternoon because the: owners had harboured snipers.
Exemplary punishment imposed by the Palestine Court on insurgents Include sentence of wight year' im risenment for an Arab "who was arrested near the Jerusalem" quarry with a number of Mills bombs in his.
A resident of Hebron who was found with 74 bullets in. his posses: sion was given a five-year term in London, July 15.
The Foreign Ofice, it is understood, considering a protest to against the treatment of a British Indian, Mr, Hussein, and his wife luting their detention in Manchou-
Both Hussein and his wife, it Is stated, were beaten by. the police, while Hussein was subjected to water torture, large quantities of water being foreed down his mouth, Hussein was arrested on charges of fraud, but he was released as a con-Sequence of a British protest claim: ing that he enjoyed extraterritorial privileges, The Japanese authorities have roped the charges against him, Medical Confirmation Newspapers here comment on the evidence which has reached London irom Manchuria of the brutal lltreatment of Hussein and his family after their arrest at Changchun. on June 17 by Japanese authorities in contravention of British extratertorial rights.
It was not until June 27 that the British Vice-Consul at Mukden was able to see the arrested man and the tortures of which he then leoraed of were renewed subsequently during continued confinement until the prisoners were finally handed over to the British Consul-General, Medical examination at the Consulate confirmed the depositions the arrested merchant that he had The case was brought to the atten-ton of the Japanese Government. at the beginning of July by bassador In Tokyo—Wireless and Reuter,
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