An attempt on the part of the Arab Executive to draw conclusions from the medical examinations of the Hebron victims, which had to be interrupted when decomposition of the bodies interfered with the investigation for signs of mutilation, is made in a circular issued today in English under the headline: “Scandals of Jewish Propaganda.”
The circular announces, with a show of triumph, that the impartial medical examination contradicted the Jewish physicians’ reports regarding atrocities and mutilations in the Hebron massacre. It claims that the actual facts do not substantiate the High Commissioner’s statement in his proclamation of September 1, that the Hebron murders were accompanied with “acts of unspeakable savagery.”
The circular declares that when twenty-eight bodies had been examined, the Jewish doctors proposed to desist, but the Arabs insisted that all
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(Continued from Page 1) bodies be exhumed, until the Jews, in a written statement, agreed to desist. It alleges “the report which the Arab doctors will submit will be an historical document, from which the world will know that the Jewish propaganda in the disturbances was built on falsehood to deceive public opinion, in order to collect more money and reflect on the dignity and honor of the Arabs.”
The secretaries of the Arab Executive, in signing the circular, do not deplore the wholesale massacre of 65 persons at Hebron, which in itself is not considered by them as atrocities.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency representative understands the government is preparing a statement in deference to Arab wishes, which will show the British members of the examining commission did not concur with the Jewish physicians in the opinion concerning the mutilations, although confirming that arms, hands and organs were severed.
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