An appeal has been lodged by the fifteen Arab leaders convicted of participation in the bloody October 1933 disturbances at Jaffa, against their sentences ranging from five to eleven months’ imprisonment. Chief grounds for the appeal are that these leaders were under the impression that the demonstrations had been legalized, in view of a promise by District Commissioner Crosbie to receive a delegation which would proceed from the Jaffa Mosque to the governorate offices, a distance of about 200 yards.
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