Several were wounded in clashes between the police and a crowd of Christian Moslems participating in a sympathy demonstration with Palestine Arabs, in Damascus on October 21, according to a report in the El Ahram,” Arab paper of Cairo.
The demonstration which started from the Mosque and the Greek Church, passed the government offices and the offices of the consulates. Damascus papers ceased publication on the day of the demonstration.
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