IN PALESTINE

Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1929, Page 6

IN PALESTINE

BIG MEETINGS HELD. CONDEMNATION OF BRITISH ADMIN 1 SR ATION. (United Press Association. —ByElectrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, Sept. 2. Jews from all parts of London formed ten abreast, to attend a Zionist Federaion protest meeting at the Al-, bert Hall in connection with the Palestine disturbances. Three thousand who were not accommodated in the hall, vainly stormed the entrances, thereby necessitating police intervention. There were overflow meetings held in the-neighbourhood which relieved the pressure. Lord Melchett (formerly Sir Alfred Mond) presided over the Albert Hall meeting of ten thousand. He declared that they had then a breakdown of British administration in territory under the British flag that was almost unequalled since the Indian Mutiny. Such an incredible state of affairs, he said filled Hebrew hearts with indignation and woe. A conflagration broke without knowledge or warning, and those responsible’'for. the safety off Pal-, estine weVe without a method of dealing with this trouble in a territory that was about the - siz?e of Wales and that was inhabited by a few hundred thousand ’Arabs. This, he said, filled all Jewish* organisations with indignation and amazement. He added: “I do not criticise the present Government, who took what steps they could the moment that the trouble started; but the position which was allowed to arise is a disgrace to-any British administration. Unless the Balfour Declaration is carried" out, there will be a repetition of these scenes* which might have been avoided if one strong man had been governing the country.” Mr Weinman (a leader of the Zionist movement)' moved a resolution expressing indignation. He said that in- a belief that the Government would protect life and property, Jewish people ifrom throughout the world had poured in their millions, and had settled thousands of people in Palestine. The whole manner in which the mandate had bean administered must be adequately investigated. Chief Rabbi Hertz in supporting the resolution, which ..was carried, expressed his confidence in the Government. The Archbishop of Canterbury; Lord Balfour; Lord Reading (formerly Mr Rufus Isaacs), Viscount Cecil, General Smuts, Sir Robert Valey, Mr Cohqn, the Lord Mayor of London, the Lords Provost qf Edinburgh and Glasgow forwarded letters sympathising witli the object of-the meeting. . •: '*3 *'\

WARLIKE APTITUDE. y t OF LONDON JEWS. LONDON, September 2. Jewish ex-servicemen assembled in Trafalgar Square, and then marched to the Cenotaph, placing | a wreath thereon inscribed: “From British Jewish ex-service men in reverent memory of all faiths who died in the liberation of Palestine.” Thousands of Jews thronged Hyde Park, where, from many platforms there were impassioned speeches inspired with emotional outbursts. The speakers proposed to raise purely Jewish battalions. Thereupon hundreds responded. It is understood that the authorities forbid such recruiting. RUSSIAN JEWS. WANT TO ORGANISE FORCES. LONDON, September 2. A telegram from Riga states: The Central Committee of the Jewish organisation, Trumpledor, have sent a telegram to Lord. Passfield-' offering three thousand Jewish volunteers for Pale#ine under British orders. JEWISH WORKERS. NOT ALL AGAINST ARABS. LONDON, September 2. A meeting that was arranged by the Warsaw Branch of the Zionist Workers’ Federation ended in a fight, in which knives and revolvers were used, forty persons being wounded. Communists, who distributed pamphlets stating that the Arabs are fighting against the Jewish bourgeoisie, and not against the Jewish proletariat, apparently'started the trouble.