SCORES OF JEWS WERE INJURED IN BAGDAD, CAPITAL OF IRAQ, THIRTY SO SERIOUSLY THEY WERE SENT TO HOSPITALS, AND MANY JEWISH SHOPS WERE PILLAGED, AFTER MASS DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST ZIONISM, ACCORDING TO REPORTS RECEIVED HERE TODAY.
ALL JEWISH SHOPS IN THE CITY HAD BEEN CLOSED THROUGHOUT THE DAY BECAUSE OF THE DEMONSTRATION, CALLED TO PROTEST PARTITIONING OF PALESTINE AND LED BY AUNI BEY ABDUL HADI, MILITANT PALESTINIAN ARAB NATIONALIST.
WARSAW AND ANTWERP SEE JEWISH ANTI-PARTITION DEMONSTRATION
JEWISH PROTESTS AGAINST PARTITION WERE CONDUCTED IN CONNECTION WITH TISHA B’AB OBSERVANCES IN WARSAW AND ANTWERP YESTERDAY. IN THE POLISH CAPITAL MEMBERS OF THE NEW ZIONIST ORGANIZATION DEMONSTRATED IN JEWISH DISTRICTS, HOLDING A PROCESSION THROUGH THE NALEWSKI QUARTER AND A MEETING AT MURANOWSKI SQUARE, WHERE A RESOLUTION AGAINST PARTITION WAS ADOPTED. IN THE BELGIAN CITY, THE HAVAS NEWS AGENCY REPORTED, JEWS PARADED THROUGH THE PRINCIPAL STREETS TO THE STATUTE LATE KING ALBERT, WHERE THEY TOOK THE OATH NEVER TO FORGET JERUSALEM.
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