(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
No information has been received by the British Colonial Office with regard to the protest of the Palestine Federation of Labor against the flogging of prisoners in Palestine jails.
Col. Leopold Amery, the Colonial Secretary, replying to the question raised by Commander Kenworthy, stated that the office will make an inquiry into the question raised following the hunger strike declared by the ten Communist prisoners in the Jerusalem jail against the treatment accorded them.
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