IN PALESTINE

Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1929, Page 5

IN PALESTINE

PALESTINE STRIFE. BODIES EXHUMED. 'United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). JERUSALEM, Sept. 11. An eerie scone occurred at the Hebron Cemetery, when the bodies of fiftyrseven ‘ victims of massacre were exhumed in the, -presence of a medical commission, composed of three British, three" Arab, and three Jewish doctors. The purpose of the exhumations was to settle to the satisfaction of the British authorities, the controversy that is raging with an accumulating fire as to whether Arabs had committed unspeakable atrocities that are attributed to them by Jewish eyewitnesses. j The Commission’s findings are not likely to be disclosed for some days. JEWISH DEMANDS. LONDON, -Sert. 12. ■ “The Times’s” correspondent at Haifa states that, despite the report that all is quiet in Haifa and Galilee, there is still a. sense of insecurity. ' I'fhe Jews are 1 demanding the punishment of - instigators of the Hebron massacre, and also of a . number of Arab notables. The Jews demand compensation for damage, also relief for'refugees, widows and orphans, and they ask for ransom for those murdered. - ARABS’ COUNTER CLAIMSLONDON, Sept. 12. “Th 6 Time’s” correspondent at Haifa stages that the Arabs are making claims to counter the claims of the Jews. These include the stopping of the Jewish immigration into Palestine: this repeal of the Balfour Declaration ; the appointment of a British Moslem High Commissioner; the dismissal of the Jews that are now employed in the Secretarial work, and also the telephonists and nurses; the withdrawal of the Palestine Government’s relief to the unemployed Jews: the disarming of tlpe Jews, or else permission for the Araibs to arm; and the imposition of a duty on foreign oil and grain. ’?■ The Palestine Arabs! are raising funds for the relief of their injured brethren. . ' The Palestine Arabs are also collecting reports of the Jewish attacks for presentation to the Government.