OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1929, Page 5

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

A PROCLAMATION.

CRIMINAL COURT SET UP.

(British Official Wireless.) ,

(Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) '■ RUGBY, Sept. 5.

Sir John Chancellor, British High Commissioner in Palestine, has issued a proclamation in which he refers to the law enacted as a measure of public urgency, to provide that courts for trial of criminal cases arising out of the recent disorders will he composed of British judges.

“Representations have been made to me which point to the belief in the minds of certain people that a trial of persons, charged with criminal acts, is to be confined to one section of the population. This belief does not correctly interpret the intentions of the Government, which are. that since crimes of various descriptions are known,to have been perpetrated by both Arabs and Jews, all offenders without distinction of race or creed will be -brought to trial before the courts to be set up under this ordinance.” RAIDING ARABS ATTACKED. RUGBY, Sept. 5. Tlie Colonial Office' states that successful action was .taken against a party of raiding Arabs on the evening of 3rd September .at El Misha village east of Mount Tabor, 26 casualties were inflicted on raiders while one soldier was'slightly wounded:' FRENCH ACTION. RUGBY, Sept.'s. French authorities in Syria have posted detachments on the Palestine frontier north of jSafed, in order to prevent an incursion of Arabs into our territory. During Wednesday the situation remained generally quiet. Aircraft continue to carry out systematic patrols over the whole oountiy.