Two Jews, Peretz Sagon and Joseph Rosen, were sentenced to-day to two years’ imprisonment each by the Jerusalem District Court, on a charge of distributing Communist literature agitating against “British Imperialism and Zionism” among the Arab peasants outside Nablus during the Nebi Moussa procession last April. The Court recommended that after serving their sentences both prisoners should be deported.
It was stated during last Nebi Moussa that the Palestine Police had received information that instructions had arrived for the Palestine Communists from the Communist International “to turn Nebi Moussa day into a day of bloodshed, with proclamations calling for a fight against the Government, the Zionists and the Effendis”. Seven Communists were arrested in Jerusalem, three Jewish women, two Jews and two Arabs, and realising that the police were out to round them up the Communists abandoned their attempts at incitement and disappeared so rapidly that the police were unable to capture even the fourteen Communist leaders against whom warrants had been issued the previous night.
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