A Russian, formerly belonging to General Denikin’s anti-Bolshevist army, has been sentenced here to two months’ imprisonment for stealing a lux lamp from a synagogue.
The court has also recommended him to deportation for having entered Palestine illegally. Before coming to Palestine, he had served in the French Foreign Legion in Syria.
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