Five-year army court terms meted out Jan. 21 to Abraham Aziz and Eliahu Brunn for carrying weapons in violation of emergency regulations were yesterday reduced respectively to three and six months by General A. P. Wavell, commander-in-chief of British forces in Palestine. Aziz and Brunn are the first two Jews convicted under the emergency regulations.
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