A cablegram of protest against the Wailing Wall incident was despatched by the Poale Zion of America, Jewish Socialist labor party, to the British Labor Party. The message read:
“We are greived and astonished by occurrences the last few days at the Wailing Wall, Jerusalem streets and brutality of police. Never such sacrileges in Dark Ages under barbaric Turkish rule. We are deeply wounded in our love and expectations of our brother organization, the British Labor Party, which on numerous occasions demonstrated its friendship to the Zionist movement and Jewish labor in Palestine. We are confident Colonial Office will take immediate drastic steps to end outrages which arouse indignation of world Jewry.”
At the meeting held Thursday night at the Hotel Pennsylvania, called at the initiative of the American Jewish (Continued on Page 4)
Legionnaires who served in the British army in Palestine under General Allenby, plans were formulated for the holding of a street demonstration Monday afternoon to proceed to the British Consulate General in New York, 44 Whitehall Street.
Samuel Friedlander of the legionnaires presided at the meeting which adopted a strong resolution of protest. A committee was chosen to be in charge of arrangements, including Elias Ginsberg, Mordecai Danzis, Samuel Kriss and Abraham Feit. Representatives of the Zeire Zion, the Brooklyn Hakoah, Brith Trumpeldor, the Zionist Revisionsis, and others attended.
The demonstration will begin at 2 P. M. starting at Second Avenue and Tenth Street, it was announced.
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