Lt. Gen. Geoffrey Keyes, American commander in Palestine, has sharply reduced sentences imposed on four Austrians convicted by an American military court of having participated in an alleged anti-Semitic demonstration in the city of Bad Ischl. The original sentences against the leaders of the demonstration, who said that it had been called to protest food shortages, ranged up to 15 years imprisonment. Gen. Keyes cut the sentences to a top of one year and one of the defendants was completely exonerated.
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