SIR ALFRED AND LADY MOND
• ♦ THREATENED BY MOB AT BAGDAD BY IELEGBAFH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION Copyright. Bagdad, February 11. Sir Alfred and Lady Afond and their daughter, Lady Erleigh, and eleven others, in order to avoid a threatening mob of ten thousand, were forced to enter the city by a circuitous route, after a. journey across the desert from Palestine. They were transferred into light motors and drove to the British residency undetected. The mob’s attitude was due to political propagandists declaring the party was coming to introduce into Iraq Zionist principles, based on the Palestine tegime. Students held processions _in . the streets, shouting, ‘‘Down with Zionism!” They were quickly reinforced bv thousands of idlers and a sprinkling of natives. Mounted . police dispersed the demonstrators. Several were in- t jured,—A.P.A, and I‘Sun,”
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 116, 14 February 1928, Page 8
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