JEWS IN PALESTINE.
FEARS OP GREAT MASSACRE. (Received 2.50 p.m.) LONDON, May 20. The strictersi martial law prevails in Jerusalem, where the schools have been closed and the- publication of newspapers i prohibited.' The official archives and 1 treasures are being- hurried northward, i The Turks are brutally treating for- 1 eigners. The -Jewish Society in Palestine i telegraphed to the Socialist Congress in s Stockholm that the Turkish Government .- has ordered Jews to evacuate Palestine, 1 including Jerusalem, and Galilee, t The order is being enforced with increas- 1 ing severity, and the pillage is threaten- c ing to culminate in a massacre similar t to that in Armenia.— (United Service.) a
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 120, 21 May 1917, Page 2
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