Attack During Investigation of Starkey Murder Jerusatem, Jan. 19.
The, military court to-day passed the death sentence on the Araly peasant who fired on the police last week while they were conducting, investigations into the murder of Mr, 4. L. Starkey, the British areheotog-4st who was' killed ina highway hold-up near' Hebron on January 10.
Mr. Starkey, accompanied by" two Arab assistants, was suddenly upon, while he' was travelling niolorcar to Jerusalem, by an urined wong of bandit Arabs.
The bandits forced him to alight and then shot him twice in the back, spaving his assistants, Mr. Starkey had been excavating, at Lachish, a city of Judah, situated between Gaza and "Eleutheropolis The town Is now deserted, but is represented by the stone heaps of Tol-el-Hesy. closed eight cities one above Excavations pave: ds, the Jand to continue as Mititar Governor Andalusia, The constitution of the Ministry Which, has been announced and put off frequently, will bring about great Jchanges in the military ud administrative machinery of Nationalist
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