News reaching here from Teheran, Persia, says that Wolfgang von Weisl, Jewish journalist, Zionist Revisionist leader and one of those who was injured during the 1929 riots in Palestine, was arrested on the Iraq-Persian border in North Kurdestan on September 17. Von Weisl, who was on a journey with M. Brum, a painter from Bruenn, and was accompanied by a Kurdish guide, was mistaken, it is reported, for the mysterious Colonel Lawrence, who is declared responsible for the recent Kurdish revolt.
On September 20, according to the report, Von Weisl was taken to Taebris, after having been guarded by a special patrol while being detained in the Urmiah American Mission House. He was not allowed to communicate with his employers, the Ullstein publishing house in Berlin, until September 27 when he was taken to Teheran and released. He is still in Persia, according to reports, because of an illness contracted during his detention.
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