KING FEISAL'S BODY IN IRAQ
remarkable SCENES IN HAIFA (Received September 15, 1.5 a.m.) LONDON, September 14. There were remarkable scenes on the arrival of King Feisal's body at the aerodrome at Haifa. Fitteen thousand Arabs gathered for a religious ceremony broke the police cordon, and rushed towards the dais on which the coffin had been placed, endeavouring to touch it. Mounted police with drawn batons eventually cleared the way to the Royal Air Force aeroplane, which is taking the body to Bagdad.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20961, 15 September 1933, Page 9
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