ENGLISHMEN AND THE LAW IN PALESTINE.
[To THE EDITOR. or THE " SPECTATOR.21 noticed. with interest that you referred, to the present state of affairs in Palestine in. last week's issue of the Spec- tator. You may not be aware, however, of a case of the mal-. treatment of an Englishman, an. ex-Sergeant-Major in. the Royal Army Service Corps, by name James. Northrop, which has created a great deal of ill-feeling among the. British cam- eannity in that muchdiscuseed country. According' te reliable information I have received from Palestine James Northrop, against whom there was a charge of fraudulent conversion (of which he was subsequently acquitted), was- detained in prison for eighteen days at Acre. He- was confined with prisoners, of all sorts, including native- Bedouin and Russian Jews, in a common cell and with common blankets. The number of prisoners in the cell varied, but at times thirty-eight were- sleeping in the same cell, Northrop being the only white- man. He was refused bail during this period, notwithstanding the, fact that one of the Englishmen who offered to stand bail for him was the. manager of Messrs. Lever Brothers for Palestine, a man of eubstantial commercial standing in the oountry.-1,
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