PALEST

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 October 1938, Page 5

PALEST

PROPOSI i SUBMITTL MINI • JEW-ARAB CO-C By Telegraph—Press Copyright.*, LONDON, The “Daily Telegraph” s Irak Foreign Minister, Sey.Swaidi, who is now in Lo brought a plan for a Palestir ment, aiming at Jew-Arab in creating a British-controllea similar to Irak. The details inclu (1) Administration to be gradin transferred from Britain to Palestine’. (2) All Palestinians to be guaranteed political and civil rights, regardless of race or creed. (3 All communities to have equal rights. (4) Full municipal powers to be granted to Arab and Jewish towns and villages. (5) The number of Jewish residents not to be increased. (6) Legitimate British interests to be safeguarded. (7) Britain to guarantee all granted rights. British infantry rounded up the rebels and aircraft bombed and mach-ine-gunned them whenever they broke cover. A military patrol encountered an armed band on Mount Tabor and killed 12. Rebels burned down a military grocery depot at Lydda and raided the District Office in Jerusalem and burned the Government files. STATE OF REVOLT VERY SERIOUS POSITION REPORTED SCARCELY ANY ROAD SAFE LONDON, October 6. The seriousness of the situation in Palestine is disclosed by the “Daily Mail’s” Cairo correspondent, who has returned from the areas under the most rigid Press censorship and declares that Palestone is in a state of revolt. British prestige is at its lowest ebb and the whole countryside is almost completely in the hands of the rebels, who have their own courts, which give orders that no Arab dare disobey under penalty of death. Scarcely any road is safe for foreign nationals to carry their passports. If a British passport was discovered it would be sure to become a ticket to heaven for its bearer. The air base at Ramleh is the danger spot. The correspondent adds that it was actually the rebels who imposed the curfew at Haifa forbidding Arabs to go out after 7 p.m. Thus anyone walking in the streets after that time would be sure to be British or a Jew and liable to attack. The Government was therefore forced to proclaim the curfew.