GRAND MUFTI IN SYRIA

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24898, 11 June 1946, Page 5

GRAND MUFTI IN SYRIA

ARRIVAL BY AIR FROM FRANCE

ARAB LEAGUE COUNCIL MEETING

<N.Z Press Association—Copyright) “ ln Syria, where he will attend brother. * ’■ who ls the r™ e Mufti ’ s secret departure from French o as re P° rted earlier by t™ C t° r ot n *the added that * th? s ® r f as '• had tLhtnn P ale9tine Government naa tightened the newspaper and radio ylare rS <rf P an^ h r iC f h has lasted for slx movements y Thl erence t 0 the Mufti ' s n j „ The censor personally telephoned all editors in Palestine emphasising that the Muftrs diippfStlonetL France must not be’men-

»i Th ? Grand Mufti fled from Palestine to Lebanon in 1937 after taking a SSn! P H rt in the Arab Nationalist He was associated with the Mt« B l»f} Sl } rIS J? B in Iraq in 1041 an d noSL}® 1 ? { u r Ge ™ at >y He was refrnm d pJ; o Un ha M e in Arabic the end nJ ;,, He arri ved m France at tne end of the war after placing himi’n Germany hand ’ ° f the ™ ch Arm X The Associated Press says: "The mystery thrown round the Mufti’s stay Frmnh Oe ' his , 3eclu9 'on near Paris with French guards ensuring privacy, and kn e «. 8 t h 0 V lde !'' s . hru S Bin ® response to reTXIV'f lnlo ™iation. all seemed to hit nnS,F ral ? Ce ll tf ”l dar solicitude for her position in the Middle East” Four hundred and sixty illegal Jewll t inSl'S s L ants a , board a schooner inmFff pi nJs !u V a Brltish destroyer 60 Son 8 f°S st ,. of Palestine have been landed at Haifa, and taken to a detention camp to join earlier illegal immigrants.