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Show oo FIRST POPULAR ELECTION COMES OFF IN HOLY LAND NEW YORK. May 14. Two women won scats in the Jewish constituent assembly of Pnlesline, in the election held a few days ago, il was announced tonight. It was the first popular election elec-tion over held in the Holy Land, it is said. The labor group, it added, will control con-trol a majority of tho delegates of the assembly, which will draft part of tho fundamental law of tho Jewish communities com-munities in Palestine. The elections were open to every Jew and Jewess in Palestino above the ago of 20. The ability to read, write and speak Hebrew wero the only qualifications qual-ifications demanded o candidates for tho assembly. Seventy-five per cent of the Jewish population is said t to ;havo voted. i |