YOUTHS AS KILLERS
POLICY OF TERRORISTS
SENTENCE ON ARAB BOY
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received April 8, 9.30 a.m.)
RUGBY, April 6,
The Secretary for the Colonies, Mr, Malcolm Mac Donald, answered a question in the House of Commons about the sentence which was passed in Palestine on an Arab boy who was found guilty on March 24 of shooting a Jew. The sentence was for ten years' imprisonment and eighteen strokes by whipping, which is inflicted with a light rod, a cane, or a birch.
In confirming the sentence five days later, the General Officer Commanding reduced the strokes to twelve and directed that' the sentence should be served in a reformatory.
Mr*. Mac Donald said he would like to explain to the House in connection with such sentences on boys that the present policy of terrorist organisations in Palestine was to encourage youths under 18 years of age, who, if caught, could not be sentenced to death, to carry lethal weapons with intent to kill.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 82, 8 April 1939, Page 14
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