Two Arab boys, and one 16-year-old Jewish boy, have been imprisoned for crossing Arab borders and delivering information to Arab intelligence. The case of the Arab boys and the Jewish youth are not connected.
The Arab boys were accused of having been recruited by a 20-year-old Arab youth in the village Tirah, who had graduated from a Hebrew high school. The Tirah youth is said to have headed up a ring of Arab boys whom he sent out to collect information which they would then deliver to Jordanians across the border. The two boys caught working with the youth from Tirah have been fined 500 pounds each ($302.50). The ring leader has been tried by a military court, and his sentence will be announced later this week.
In the case of the Jewish boy, a magistrate at Tiberias ordered him imprisoned for 15 days. This boy said he had crossed the border into Syria after a quarrel with his “girl friend” in a northern settlement. Once over the border, the boy is said to have confessed, he delivered military information to the Syrians, who had captured him and told him they would kidnap his ‘girl friend” and bring her into Syria. Meanwhile, the Syrians ordered the boy to re-cross the border and gather more information for them.
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