MURDER OF BRITISH CONSUL
SIX MEN SENTENCED TO IMPRISONMENT (Received April 18, 7.5 p.m.) BAGHDAD, April 17. Sentences varying from eight to 15 years’ imprisonment with hard labour were imposed on six men at a court martial over the death of Mr G. E. A. C. Monck-Mason, the British Consul at Mosul. The sentence of death on two lads was commuted to 15 years’ imprisonment with hard labour on the ground of their youth.
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Southland Times, Issue 23796, 19 April 1939, Page 5
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