Chief Rabbi Kook and Rabbi Sonnenfeldd, the aged head of the Agudath Israel Community in Palestine, went on a joint deputation to-day to the High Commissioner, Sir John Chancellor, to ask the Government to intervene in order to prevent football matches being played by Jewish teams on Saturdays.
Sir John replied that he sympathised with the Rabbis in their perturbation at the desecration of the Sabbath, the J.T.A. learns, but that he could not promise to intervene in the matter, since public opinion had failed to influence the Jewish teams not to play their matches on the Sabbath.
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