MURDER THREATS BY ARABS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 9, 4 October 1937, Page 5

MURDER THREATS BY ARABS

-Press Asrn

Reason for British Action in Palestine DISORDERS SPREADING

(By Telegraph

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(Received 4, 11.6b i.m.) LONDbN, Oct. 3. Tho Jerusalem corrcspondent of the British United Press says tliat tlie Government's actiou ui arrestiug and deporting Arah leaders was proinpteil by tbe iact that a nuinber of senior 'British officials liad received threateniug letters during the past few days in ivliich they werp advised to give up tlieir posts or sulfer tho "same fatu as AudreAvs and McEwen." The cruiser Sussex has returned to Hail'a, having transferred five Arab leaders to the destroyer Active procceding to the Seychelles Islands. The Grand Muftj has urged Arabs to return to work, but the general strike movement has become intensified. Hooligans. drenched crates of vegetables with kerosene and strewed the roads with nails. Arab women will dewonstrate against the deportations. Arrests at Jaffa include Al'i Dabagh, head of the Moslem Youth Association, and other notables, who have been sentenced to six months' imprisonment. Four Jewish Communists have been deported.