Inspector General Roy G. B. Spicer, commandant of the Palestine police, today permitted interested Jewish organizations to supply beds and kosher food to the thirty-two Jewish girls confined in the Bethlehem jail on the charge of having entered the country illegally.
Dispatches from London last Sunday described the girls as incarcerated in an old prison now housing 100 prisoners instead of the sixty it was originally intended to house. They were sleeping on the floor and were inadequately fed, according to the reports.
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