Five of the Arabs serving life sentences for the murder of Jews during the riots in Safed in August 1929 will be pardoned, Aljamea Al Arabia, organ of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, reports today. The paper says that the report is unverified and gives it for what it is worth.
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