Four demands were presented by the Arab Executive to Sir John Chancellor of Jerusalem, and H. C. Luke, Civil Secretary.
The Arabs demanded leniency for the Arabs condemned to death for the part in the massacre of the Jews; the replacing of Judge Litt by another judge; permission to bring a lawyer from England to act as counsel in important cases; that the Safed cases be tried at Safed, and not at Haifa.
The requests that Judge Litt be replaced and that counsel be brought from England were refused by Chancellor as illegal.
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