PALESTINE DISORDERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 858, 30 December 1929, Page 9

PALESTINE DISORDERS

COMMISSION CONCLUDES SITTING STATEMENT TO PEOPLE British Official Wireless Reed. 10.47 a.m. RUGBY, Sunday. The Palestine Commission of Inquiry, which ends its sitting today, lias issued a statement to the people of Palestine. The statement says: “The witnesses whose evidence we have heard have been drawn from many sections of tlie community and most parts of the country. From all parties we have had a full measure of assistance and co-operation in our work. We feel we take home, not merely a record of the recent tragic events which have so marred the history of this country, but material which will be most helpful in our analysis of the causes of those events and suggestions of the highest value from individuals and from persons of representative organisations, regarding the steps which should be taken to avoid a recurrence of such outbreaks. “We have completed the first, part of our work, namely local inquiries. In the more difficult task which lies before us, that of determining the causes of outbreak and of forming recommendations for the future, we shall be encouraged by the thought that all in this country who were concerned in our inquiry readily co-oper-ated with us. We shall apply ourselves to that task with full confidence that they will be equally ready to co-operate with us in the conduct of the future policy of this country on such lines as his Majesty’s .Government, after consideration of our recommendations, may decide to adopt.”