A revolt of the prisoners at Acre Gaol has decided the authorities to drop their intention to transfer to the Jerusalem Prison three Arabs serving terms for participation in the anti-Jewish massacres in Safed in August 1929. The Arabs were to have been transferred early this morning, but the other prisoners started disturbances as a protest against their removal and after the disturbances had continued till about three o’clock in the afternoon, the authorities decided to call off their transfer decision and to allow the prisoners to remain at Acre.
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