The Arab press has during the week been conducting an agitation on the basis of rumours to the effect that a Jewish policeman, acting as warder in the Jerusalem Prison had beaten a Moslem prisoner, who was reading the Koran, and had thrown the Koran to the floor. It has now been established that the warder was not aware that the book was a Koran, and that he beat the prisoner for refusing to do the work which had been allotted to him. A police communique has been issued today which states that the Police Commandant, as the result of an enquiry, has established that the warder under provocation “temporarily lost his temper while dealing with an insubordinate prisoner, and acted in an improper way, and that he has been severely punished and is being transferred”.
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