All government schools throughout Palestine were opened today, attendance being normal. Announcement of the reopening of the schools and the return of Arab pupils, who had been on strike at Nablus for alleged corporal punishment, and others in Jerusalem who declared a sympathy strike, was made today by Commissioner of Education Bowman.
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