RACE RIOTS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1929, Page 5

RACE RIOTS

' / . FURTHER REPORTS. (United Press Association—By Electric V• • Telegraphy-Copyright). • WiW'''- ~ ; ' - mm •/; London, August 26. - :; A local i correspondent at Jerusalem, who-has been an eye witness of the • _ events, leading uprto, the^disturbances, • ' blames, the: Zionist, Faseisti for precipitating the crisis, by assembling at ' , Jerusalem on August 14th, which is a ■ ; Jewish; fast day; for the/purpose/’ of / , .-making a provocative demonstration , » ‘in the) heart of the sacred Moslem . Waaf. .' , ’ Comparatively few.,real Jews, says the correspondent, or those following : - the Jewish religion, appeared sat the r. Wailing' Wall, hut - the , Area , was 'crowded with . brawny., young . Fascists : • from the/ colonies; who; jostled 1 , an^ •; Wttacked every Moslem or. every Chris- ;/. - tiari v suspected oif mocking. ’ - , .- ■ " The British police guard succeeded ,/ in /preventing Any incidents’. >•. /;. r -/, Next/day, however, /the Jew ish Fa s-

/, cists . marched in a .procession to the ,,>Yaaf and there demonstrated ~ before'; the house l of the. .Grand Fufti.; . • The Moslem feeling .was thereby ex- , cited to. the highest pitch. Two thousand Arabs descended on-. tbe Wailing % Wall and burned the Jewish prayers . aiid .petitions. '• • • The next /incident was the stabbing : of a Jewish boy in *a quarrel with ; Tlwv! Zionists /converted the ; boy’s ifuhejral into; a; Jewislr Nationalist and anti-Moslem demonstration, and they • endeavoured ,*to . enter 1 the’. Arab city and’lay/the .body, at'the .' Wailing Wall. > ; /The .British police, beat off • the- Jews with sticks. . The Whole.' story. ' vas <?x----b hlkerated and ;Was spread throughout Palestine, aroiising the Moslems ;/ to : /. ;/the/wildest excitement. -

; : AttAß DEATH ROLL: • 1 ... LONDON; August 26... /;:-j "./ At deast. forty -Arabs . have -been / - found dead as the result of the week-

• MOSLEM / FANATICISM: / ; •./ / LONDON).. August; 26./, jlie; Arab ‘attack has spread to the ’ Valley of/Jezreel; arid a Jewish colony .at .Beisim /has. been completely de--1 , stroyed.'One Jew. was killed, and 21 : v ., were .-injured.’ ~ / AMERICAN JEWS AMONG . O , 'VICTIMS., ' ‘ • -h / LONDON, 26.:-/ J.eriiqiiem reports state ; that twelvf, i/. Americans, h’aVe. been , killed and fif-:-^»^teen; wounded during the. week-end ... rioting.;;:/-. '.. y-. -• ! No'measures for. the evacuation of • Americans from Palestine are being taken, ; tort thirty; American yrisMents-. 1 • are refuging in t the J erusalem Ameri- . c%n Consulate. T"/ -■///'i'he’ dead Americana are - all students,/at the Lonodka Talmuric School at Hebron. / V

/; JEWS, IN AMERICA. " ; ’ DEJIAND INTERVENTION ‘ !p:V:V K/ \ —•'■f :i V' : k V.-.; -NEW YORK; August 20.; While'"', it .' is /indicated . that. the U.S. : A.’ ! State Department ' desires to •'hbld/ili&f' •'from interference in ‘ the Palestine '--situation, - "feeling that /tho •/; ’British Control 1 is adequate for tb? ' V protection ’ of , .American interests there; a:'mimberf of, prominent' Jews; • >f‘ hire' Ibecbnie ■ aroused by the latest 1 reports,' which indicate - that amirni- ' ber of Americari Jewish: students have been killed in the uprising. 1 The' American Jewish Congress wjl' - . to-morrow formulate a protest to the State Department 'against .wliollv unwarranted .attacks by Arabs upon Pal-;..-V‘;estinef'^wa^'. -f"'-/ : ' To night .Congressman Emanuel Cel-. r . lar, of. New. York,.;many of .whose constituents have joric much, to further the Palestine movement, advised U.S.. Secretary Stimson. that he should not .•Vf’rcompiacently.; view, the, situation, ■'but should despatch the cruiser Raleigh to the "scene, / and should make the v - strongest representations to the Bvit- ■ ish Colonial Government for the proteiprtion; of . Jews. , ; Mr’Cellar states; “American Jewry is/,deeply shocked and demand action. The./whole Palestine movement hangs '■in/the balance.;/ The inaction of the .//; American/Slate /Department; may be unforgivable. Some statement of policy.must be' forthcoming.

POLISH JEWS’ ATTITUDE

DEMONSTRATION.

./ . WARSAW, August 26 The Polish 'Jews especially ihose in . Warsaw. humiliation at, the alleged indifference ' and. inactivity cf /the British! authorities. A large number of Jews, chiefly Zionist studoors, marched m procession through the main streets of'Warsaw and lnncle-'a demonstration outside the Pri 7 tish Legation; until they wore' dispersed by the police. i • MORE BRITISH TROOPS GOING. —_ i •’**'* LONDON, August '26./v ’/'At the- request of the High Com- ■ / missioner' for Palestine, the British . War Office, has instructed the Com-mandpr-in-Chief at Malta to despatch the Second Battalion of the South Staffordshire Regiment to Palestine.

ARABS ATTACKING.

FURTHER CASUALTIES.

JERUSALEM, Aug. 26.

Arabs are-now fiercely attacking Telaviv. South Wales Borderers engaged them at Jaffa, directly they landed. Migration Officer Best wafe mortally wounded in a gallant attempt to rescue an Oxford undergraduate who, was w.-unded while patrolling as a special constable. J In the Jewish suburb of Givatshoul, Arabs were raking the street with rifle fire Best dashed out to ,cover, the wounded student but was himself shot through ,the chest.

VARIOUS, REPORTS

LONDON, Aug. 26.

The British United’Press Corresp mdent at Jerusalem,' reports, the Government has’invited-the.Shells to a Conference to find means of ending ijie grave conflict; / ’ , There are many startling rumours includirig one that British aeroplanes are' bombing Left a-, where Arab fanatics are taking refuge. There is also a story that Arabs are attacking Kelandia, Jerusalem’s northern suburb. : Hie crisis, however, is believed to be past now, .and British troops are patrolling the streets. --. ' ■

DESTROYERS LEAVE FOR PALESTINE.

LONDON, Augute 26. Two destroyers have left Malta for Palestine. , a

FURTHER PARTICULARS

(Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) 1 - ' • ; CAIRO, Aug. 26., Official—The strength of the British troops in Palestine, sent'from Egypt, by tomorrow will be approximately two battalions, including- armoured car detachments, sappers and; signallers. News from Palestine is meagre, though casualties hitherto reported on both sides are greater than despatches from Jerusalem indicated. / / ' > It/is reported that prices' are rising to famine • level in Jerusalem. The / dead include a, brilliant young architect, Raitan (a designerof some the finest buildings in the city), three Rabbis and four American students.' • v ' ■'•i: ' ’ , MORE TROOPS GOING. •• .MALTA, Aug. 26. 'The aiircraft-carrier - “Courasemif” embarked a battalion of Staffordshires aid!sailed immediately for Jaffa. ■ /

y FURTHER REPORTS: 1 • “ OF AN EYE-WITNESS. v ’ (Received tb?« dav at 1.5 n m.' / a ■ LONDON, August 26. !■, An eye-witness of Jerusalem disturbances says the credit for preventing a general bloody outbreak of the whole df the Arab world,; is largely due to the Moslem authorities of Jerusalem working alb day'long and'night, to discourage the Mohammedan fuiy. The Grand / Mufti. - Hrisseini, toured the walls‘ of the Holy , City, imploring the' Arabs to be quiet, but .was greeted with hostile shouts of “You are sold to the British and Jews.” He is a national hero of Palestine arid transJordania, arid is therefore able to spenk for peace. .He even forbade a call to prayer'’on Friday night and only Christian bells were 1 heard in terrified Jerusalem, where there are two /thousand Amei’icans. - ■ ■z ’

Jn Palestine, practically all Jews are 'more or less in danger. ' The eye-witness emphasising the ’fearful responsibility resting on the Zionist Fnscisti, says comparatively few real Jews appeared at the v wall, which was crowded with brawny young ’f’ascisti from the colonies, anxious to fight.- They jostled every Moslem or Christian suspected of mocking.

. - FURTHER, DISTURBANCES,

AN OFFICIAL REPORT,

((British Official Wireless.)

.'Received this dav at 10.30. a.m.)

RUGBY, August 23

Further disturbances occurred at Jerusalem and elsewhere in Palestine, on Saturday. Measures to deal with the . situation that lias arisen have been taken ’by the British authorities. : 1 ’’ . « '

In the absence of the High Commissioner, Sir John Chancellor who is on his way hack to Palestine from England, the situation was reviewed in the Colonial Office who announced last night as follows: “The Acting High Commissioner in Palestine issued a communique on Saturday to the effect that disturbances had broken. out in Jerusalem during the past twenty-four hours ami in other parts of Palestine resulting in destruction of life and'property. The Government in Palestine was taking necessary • measures to restore 'older and was carrying out its duty of protecting life and property of all inhabitants- without distinction, and would continue to do so until order was completely restored.” The Acting High Commissioner added" that the Government in Palestine was always prepared to receive deputations to represent} the views and 1 demands of different communities but that restoration of law and order was first essential. ', ■ The Acting High Commissioner reports various attacks during Friday night and on the morning ' of the 24th. Two companies of the transJordan .frontier force arrived at AUenb.v Bridge and Gisr El Majamie respectively, first with the object of preventing the possibility of transJordan Arabs coming to Jerusalem

and second to guard the Rutenburg works and to keep order in Beisan and in Jezrcel Valley; At Nablus on the same morning a crowd attempted to invade the police barracks with the result that the police opened fire and there;were eight casualties. i There /vas a demonstration at Jaf? fa. . Latest reports from Jaffa and Tclavio, indicate that the places, white restless, are nab disorderly. All is quiet. at>' Haifa. It is regretted that Mr Best,*; Inspector of the Immigration and Travels Section,’ was killed by. rifle fire while, on patrol as a special constable. The Acting High Commissioner states that casualties in -the recent disturbance at. Jerusalem are at present unknown. The Colonial Office issues the following' statement summarising the position in’ Palestine. . On information. available as it was on Sunday morning, the /Acting High Commissioner states that/ the 'old part of Jerusalem was then quiet, but there was istill some desultory firing and incendiarism in the new quarters. The situation in the .Jewish outlying quarters arid suburbs of Jerusalem was not yet under control and there was still some looting with casualties/; ’.v • \ v '

The Jewish garden city of Talpioth near the. railway - station has been temporarily evacuated ;by the inhabitants. ;• ’• ”

At Hebron on Saturday there was an attack by an Arab mob. on the small. Jewish- quarters. /■: .

. Up: to the present , the known casualties include 45 Jews, while 69 Jews were seriously wounded. Moslem casualties were 8 killed'and 10 wounded. ■ ■ 1 -, 1 • : , ■ s ; :

Four hundred arid fifty Jews have been temporally accommodated in police/barracks and the town is now reported to be quiet. v - Iri Jaffa the situation as at eight o’clock ton Sunday morning caused some alarm in view of a possible demonstration and risk of clash. . ‘ At Tielaviv, the district authorities however succeeded in averting a demonstration for the moment and the Acting High Commissioner, felt no doubt that the arrival of the British warship “Sussex” at Jaffa early on Monday morning would ease the situation.. , " ’

/.Nablus remained /uneasy ' but . an outbreak lias so far. been averted. ' ’ Safad was very mneasy. There are no reports of attacks on the Jewish colonies. ■ ’ . •.

In the north, Gaza and’ Beerslieba were, quiet Ibut restive. ..' ; ; 1 The Colonial Office adds that the Acting High Commissioner issued the following proclamation on Sunday:— •;1 give notice to the public of Palestine that His - Majesty's .forces are operating ,in the country with . the sole phject of quelling the present disturbances and promptly restoring order. Exceptional measures of repression will be avoided as much as possible, but troops will not hesitate to use force against all disturbers of the pence. without: distinction.” /