Two Arab fellaheen, in letters to the “Ha’Aretx” today, make interesting statements. The first compains that the boycott is imposed only on the fellaheen and that Arab shopkeepers are exploiting the occasion to raise their prices as much as 100 and 150 percent., while the effendis are ordering their goods through the Jewish merchants.
The second complains that the Arab conferences taught them not to pay the indemnity imposed by the courts, but that they are now compelled to pay, and the effendis use the situation to suggest to the fellaheen that they should cede to them part of their lands since they are furnishing the money to pay the fellaheen’s indemnity.
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