SEVERE FIGHTING

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22509, 17 September 1938, Page 8

SEVERE FIGHTING

LARGE ARAB FORCE

ENGAGED

BRITISH REINFORCEMENTS

ON THE WAY

(Received September 10, 7.30 p.m.)

JERUSALEM, September 16

Thirteen aeroplanes and all avail : able soldiers in northern Palestine are engaged against the largest Arab force since the outbreak of the trouble there. A conflict was waged for hours around the village of Dierghassen, near Tulkarem. Soldiers blocked the exits from the battlefields, it is believed that at least 100 Arabs were killed. Two cavalry squadrons, another battalion from England, and three battalions from India are going tg Palestine.

JEWISH MIGRATION TO PALESTINE

"NOT DISCOURAGED BY DISORDERS"

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WELLINGTON, September IQ,

Jews in Palestine are not discouraged by the rioting and unrest, said Rabbi Benech Lew, of Jerusalem, who arrived by the Maunganui to spend a holiday of several weeks in New Zealand. He first visited New Zealand six years ago. He does not consider the future of the Zionist movement in Palestine seriously threatened by the present disorders. The British Government was now taking Arm measures to deal with terrorists, he said, and if order could be restored the Jews were hopeful that Jewish immigration to the Holy Land could be resumed. Disorders had the effect of checking immigration for the present. The present dirorders appeared to be the last efforts of the Arab terrorists to dominate the situation, but the measures now being taken by the British should hold them in check. It was thought that outside for* eign interests were to some extent responsible for stirring up the trouble, but to what extent it was impossible to say.