The arrival of the British army under Lord Allenby in Jerusalem on December 9, 1917, which for some years had been celebrated m Palestine as Deliverance Day, will no longer be regarded as an official holiday, it was reported in the London “Times.” For some time the Arabs have protested against the celebration.
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