NO REPRIEVE

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 152, 30 June 1938, Page 9

NO REPRIEVE

JEW EXECUTED

RESENTMENT IN JERUSALEM

JERUSALEM, June 29.

Solomon Ben Joseph, who had been | sentenced to death for firing on a bus and carrying arms, was executed today in the prison at Acre, despite allnight efforts by influential Jewish organisations to procure a reprieve. ! Angry crowds of Jews thronged the streets, clashing with the steel-helmet-ed police and stoning two British constables. Shops were closed as a protest, and after this the curfew was enforced.

(Received June 30, 12.50 p.m.)

JERUSALEM, June 29. Solomon Ben Joseph went to his death singing a Nationalist song. Ten of his revisionist comrades were permitted to remove the body from the prison, accompanied by a police guard, to the place of burial. _ Two hundred Jews demonstrated at Tel-Aviv and clashed with police, who made a baton charge, injuring twelve.

Joseph's case aroused Jewish interest throughout the world and at a demonstration in Warsaw on Sunday Polish Jews decided to address a petition to the King and Queen and the Archbishop of Canterbury. Joseph's lawyer, unsuccessfully appealing against the death sentence, pointed out that if Joseph were executed it would be the first time that such a sentence had been carried out in Palestine since the destruction of the Temple of Herod the Great in the year 70 A.D.