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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 117, 20 May 1939, Page 9

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PALESTINE CONDITIONS

LITTER IN JEWISH QUARTERS

ZIONISTS WARNED

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)

(Received May 20, 11.40 a.m.) JERUSALEM, May 19.

Conditions returned to normal with the ending of the Jewish strike in protest against the British White Paper.

The streets in the Jewish quarter are in the utmost confusion, being littered with stones, glass, and broken furniture, lamp-posts, traffic signs, and telephone booths. A constable who was wounded tin last night's machine-gun incident has died. :

General R. H. Haining, commander of the British forces in Palestine, summoned the Zionist leaders and warned them that further disturbances would be met with the firmest measures. He praised the restraint of the Jews in the past, but said that he regarded the shooting of policemen as murder.

Jews who were injured in yesterday's disturbances total 92.

Official Jewish organisations have received telegrams from all parts of the world promising assistance.

The Association of Jewish Landlords and Property Owners resolved on a complete tax strike until the repeal of the White Paper, which the former Arab Higher Committee also rejected as offering nothing new.

At Tel Aviv troops rounded up 300 illegal Jewish immigrants, who had secretly landed on the coast, and whoi were interned. The authorities stated that further illegal migrants will be deducted from the immigration quota.