A synagogue was burned down today in the British Protectorate of Aden, the Red Sea port of southwestern Arabia, according to authentic reports reaching here.
The dispatches stated that rioting Arabs, protesting against the British Government’s plans to establish a new constitution for the protectorate, ran wild in one of the city’s quarters. The rioters threw flaming wooden torches at the synagogue, aiming some of the torches at stacks of Jewish holy books piled in one corner of the house of worship. Several Jewish bakeries were also attacked.
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