Polish Jewry was plunged into gloom today over the execution of Shlomo Ben Josef. His native town of Luck, in southeastern Poland, was particularly depressed. The entire Jewish press reflected the public’s sorrow and indignation, the newspaper Haint urging a united demand by world Jewry for recall of Major-General Robert H. Haining, commander of British forces in Palestine, who refused to commute the military court’s death sentence on Ben Josef. All Zionist institutions in Krakow, Wilno, Lwow, Lodz and other cities Displayed blue-white Zionist flags bordered with black.
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