Warrants for the arrest of eight zealots, convicted here last week of staging a riotous demonstration before a Christian missionary school last September, were issued today, and police began rounding up the convicted Orthodox youths.
The rioters had been fined $175 each and given suspended jail sentences of eight months each. Yesterday, all eight, accompanied by parents, other relatives and friends came to the court house to surrender for their jail terms, declaring that they would prefer incarceration to the payment of the fines. The police authorities, however, refused to imprison them, since the detention warrants had not yet been prepared. Late this afternoon, the warrants were issued, calling for 60-day jail terms in lieu of fines.
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