POLISH JEWS' PROTEST
DEATH SENTENCE IN JERUSALEM APPEAL TO THE KING AMD QUEEN WARSAW, June 26. Forty thousand Jews staged a demonstration in the Jewish quarter today as a protest against the death sentence passed in Jerusalem on Solomon Ben Joseph for firing on a bus carrying arms. A women's meeting then decided to appeal to the British Queen and to urge King George to intervene. The men's meeting decided to appeal to the King and the Archbishop of Canterbury. In an unsuccessful appeal in the Jerusalem courts against the death sentence passed on , Solomon Ben Joseph, counsel for the defence said that if it was carried out it would be the first time a Jew had been executed in Palestine since the destruction of the Temple of Herod the Great in the year 70 A.D. Appeals for clemency have been received from Jewish communities all over the world. WEEKEND TERRORISM CASUALTIES IN PALESTINE JEWS AND ARABS EQUALLY TO BLAME JERUSALEM, June 20. Four persons were killed and eighteen injured as a result of terrorism ever the weekend. Jews and Arabs were equally responsible for bombings, shootings, and stabbing. • Armed Arabs derailed and set fire to a goods train between Haifa and Lydda.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 150, 28 June 1938, Page 11
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203POLISH JEWS' PROTEST Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 150, 28 June 1938, Page 11
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