SITUATION IN PALESTINE

Evening Star, Issue 22465, 9 October 1936, Page 12

SITUATION IN PALESTINE

BRITAIN'S FIRMNESS BEARING FRUIT TIME FOR POLITICAL CAJOLERY PAST Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright JERUSALEM, October 8. (Received October 9, at 10.10 a.m.) Ibn Sand’s emissary’s negotiations with the High Committee have engendered the hope that the Arabs will terminate the strike during the weekend. The firmness _of the British forces has caused widespread recognition that the time for political cajolery is past. ACTION AT MOUNT CARMEL TWO HUNDRED REBELS LOCATED. HAIFA, October 8. (Received October 9, at 10.30 a.m.) Strong British forces located at Mount Carmel 200 rebels, whom they are engaging with trench mortars, rifles, and machine guns. GENEVA DISCUSSION CONFIDENCE IN MANDATORY POWER. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 8. (Received) October 9, at noon.) A Geneva message says that at the end of the discussion on mandates the Political Committee of the League Assembly adopted a resolution expressing profound regret at the present unrest in Palestine and the hope that order will soon be re-established. It expressed full confidence in the impartiality of the inquiry which the mandatory' power has instituted. ARAB DELIBERATIONS DISTRICT COMMITTEES’ OPINIONS TO BE SOUGHT. JERUSALEM, October 8. (Received October 9, at 1.30 p.m.) The Arab High Committee, after receiving the final text of the proposed appeal of four Arab rulers to end! the strike and campaign of violence, decided to seek the district committees’ opinions before publishing an appeal. The British forces, after spectacular operations at Mount. Carmel, failed to locate the rebels. It is not known if there are any casualties. SENTIMENT IN IRAQ BAGDAD, October 8. (Recevied October 9, at 2 p.m.) The Chief Rabbi has made a statement repudiating in the name of 100,000 Jews in Iraq any connection with Zionism. “ Either inside or outside Palestine we Iraqis heart and soul are sharing national sentiments with our Iraqi brothers,” he said.