Unconfirmed reports reaching here today from Bagdad, capital of Iraq, declared that Arabs killed two Jewish leaders, Yechczkiol Marad, president of the Iraq Criminal Court and Menashe Gurdja, a well-known merchant.
It was reported that an Iraqi Nazi has been leading anti-Jewish riots which since last April, the Arab press recently said, have taken the lives of fifteen Jews. Two other Jews, one a Government official, were slain last Friday.
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