The first sentence under the Collective Punishment Ordinance was pronounced Saturday on the Arab village Ashdod. The village is required to pay 3,000 pounds for being among the twelve villages which participated in the attack on Beer Tuvia. The sentences of the other villages has not yet been announced.
One of the Chief instigators of the Jaffa riots, Hamdi Husseini, Communist and member of the Anti-Imperialist League, was arrested and was tried immediately. He was ordered by the court to move to Nazareth for a year and to appear before the local police thrice daily.
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