A military court today sentenced to death an Arab, Mustafa Mansour, convicted of participating in an attack on a Jewish bus last Dec. 30 during which a Jew was fatally wounded. Mansour is the tenth Arab to receive the death sentence from an army court.
A Safed court yesterday sentenced to two-month jail terms 16 Jews from Boukhara convicted of entering Palestine illegally. Forty-one others, including 39 women, were given their freedom on bail pending deportation.
High Commissioner Wauchope yesterday laid the cornerstone of Wauchope Bridge, which is to span the Yarkon River.
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