Finding Subhi Al Khadra, manager of the Arab Executive’s office a “suspected person” within the meaning of the Prevention of Crimes Ordinance, Keith Roach, district commissioner of Jerusalem, today ordered him to deposit $2,000 as security for a year and to live in Safed for the same period of time with the obligation of reporting regularly to the police station there.
Khadra, whom Sir Boyd Merriman, counsel for the Jews before the Shaw Commission, described as one of the most sinister figures in Palestine, was charged with being the author of the Arab Executive’s proclamation calling for a general strike on August 23, the first anniversary of last year’s riots, and also with writing an inciting article in the Aljamea Al Arabia, both of which were confiscated by the government.
In passing final judgement Keith Roach emphasized that the use of soothing phrases and words in the articles such as “love and peace”, “respect for law and order”, and “control your feelings,” deceived nobody while the text excited the feelings of the readers. The Jews of Safed, which will be Khadra’s home for the next year, will probably not welcome the Arab agitator’s enforced sojourn, but will be pleased that the order exiling him provides that he must remain indoors from sunset to sunrise.
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