DOWN WITH ZIONISM!
MONO MOBBED By Baghdad Students FORCED TO ENTER CITY BY CIRCUITOI’S ROUTE. (Received February 12 at 5 p.m.) BAGHDAD, February 11.
Sir Alfred and Lady Alond and 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 that Sir Alfred Alond was coming to introduce into Iraq, Zionist princiules, based on the Palestine Regime. Tin* students held a procession in the streets, shout ing, “Down with Zionism.’’ They were quickly reinforced by thousands of idlers and a sprinkling of native officials. They stopped other motors and robbed the occupants. Alounted police dispersed .the demonstratf-s. Several were injure*.
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Grey River Argus, 13 February 1928, Page 5
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146DOWN WITH ZIONISM! Grey River Argus, 13 February 1928, Page 5
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