NEW DANGER.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 September 1922, Page 5

NEW DANGER.

VICTORY INFLAMES ARABS. RESENT FOREIGN YOKE. MANDATES IN PERIL. By Telegraph.—Press Assn—Copyright. Received Sept. 14, 9.50 p.m. Cairo, Sept. 13. All indications point to the fact that the Turkish victories are giving immense impetus to the pan-Islamic movement. The Palestine Arabs, who are particularly elated over the Kemalist achievements, are preparing the way for an Arab confederation throughout the Arabian Peninsula. They generally believe that if the Greeks are unable to defeat the Turks, other Powers are unlikely to try conclusions at the present juncture, especially as world-wide Moslem sentiment will be organised against a country taking up arms against the Turks. The Arabs foresee and calculate upon British and French abandonment of Syria, Palestine and Mesopotamia, unless those Powers are prepared to fight Turkey, which the Arabs regard as unlikely.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. MANDATE PROCLAMATION. PASSES OFF QUIETLY. Cairo, Sept. 12. A message from Jerusalem states that the proclamation of the mandate passed off without incident, thanks to the elaborate precautions throughout the country.

Sir Herbert Samuel took the oath in the Council Hall, formerly the German Hospital, in the presence of a brilliant assembly. He expressed the hope that the British regime would mark an Arab and Jewish revival and that when Britain laid down her trust she would leave Palestine populous, prosperous and selfgoverning. and worthy of the greatest epochs of the past. A strike of drivers of conveyances nearly upset the transport of the guests. The Government threatened to cancel the strikers’ licenses and successfully averted the danger. Earlier messages have indicated a critical situation. Cairo reported that, following the publication of the British mandate. Arabs refused to work or open shops. Promnient Arabs declare: “The press and our people are boiling with indignation. There is nothing now to restrain an anti-Jewish outbreak.”