The three Arabs whose death sentences were not commuted to life imprisonment in the general reprieve May 31 will be hung June 17, according to a report to the Cairo daily “El Mokktam” from its Haifa correspondent. Of the score or more Arabs under the death sentence for the murder of Jews during last August’s riots all but two from Hebron and one from Safed were reprieved.
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