JEW EXECUTED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 June 1938, Page 10

JEW EXECUTED

EFFORTS FOR REPRIEVE FAIL ANGRY DEMONSTRATIONS IN JERUSALEM SHOPS CLOSED IN PROTEST By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. JERUSALEM, June 29. Solomon Ben Joseph, who had been sentenced to death for firing on a bus and carrying arms, was executed today in the prison at Acre, despite the nightlong efforts of influential Jewish organisations to procure a reprieve. Angry crowds of Jews thronged the streets, clashing with the steel-helmet-ed police and stoning two British constables. Shops were closed as a protest and after this the curfew was enforced. Joseph’s case aroused Jewish interest throughout the world and at a demonstration in Warsaw on Sunday Polish Jews decided to address a petition to the King and Queen and the Archbishop of Canterbury. Joseph’s lawyer unsuccessfully appealing against, the death sentence, pointed' out that, if Joseph were executed, it would be the first time that such a sentence had been carrid out in Palestine since the destruction of the Temple of Herod the Great in the year 70 A.D. COMRADES REMOVE BODV DISORDERS IN TEL AVIV BATON CHARGE BY POLICE (Recd This Day, 12.30 p.m.) JERUSALEM, June 29. Joseph went to his death singing a nationalist song. Ten revisionist comrades were permitted to remove his body from the prison, accompanied by a police guard, to the place of burial. Two hundred Jews demonstrated at Tel Aviv and clashed with the police, who made a baton charge injuring twelve.