JEWISH NEW YEAR

Evening Star, Issue 22448, 19 September 1936, Page 15

JEWISH NEW YEAR

: NOT PEACEFUL IN PALESTINE AMIS ATTACK ORANGE COLONY *; ■ -press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright JERUSALEM, September 18. (Received September 19, at 10 a.m.) The Arabs, determined that the Jews shall not spend a peaceful New Year, attacked the Orange colony at Nesszipna. Police beat off the marauders, v who burned down a flourmill at Samakh and attacked a patrol of the Eleventh Hussars. There were no casualties. ENCOURAGEMENT FOR TROOPS r DUKE OF YORK’S EXHORTATION. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 18. (Received September 19, at noon.) The Duke of York, as colonel of the ; J Scots Guards, visited Aldershot and • -.made a farewell inspection of the Second ■ ■ Battalion, which, will leave Aldershot for Palestine on Sunday. In an ad- , dress the Duke said: “You are going ■ to Palestine under more or less active „. service conditions. The situation there is very delicate, and your duty will be ±o maintain law and order, a task that j :p carries with it very heavy responsibilities and calls for the utmost tact. As your colonel,’ I expect you, by your .. behaviour, beating, and appearance, i: - both on and off parade, and particu- ' . larly in your association with the civilian population, to uphold the good y'. name of His Majesty’s Foot Guards. BRITISH GOVERNMENT STANDS FIRM (British Official Wirelsss.) RUGBY, September 18. (Received September 19, at noon.) Mr Ormsby-Gore (Secretary for the ~ . Colonies), in a speech at Stafford, said the Government did not subtract anyi thing from, or add anything to its recent . statement of policy on Palestine. The Government had made it perfectly clear • that it Could not be diverted from its policy by the shooting of British soldiers ’ or by acts of terrorism and violence.