NE OUTLOOK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 October 1938, Page 6

NE OUTLOOK

• TION OF DRAMATIC '• EVENTS LOWING ON CURRENT y. ■ CONSULTATIONS. .;ab leaders called ■ ’. TO LONDON. • * legraph—Press Association—Copyright. . 'Received This Day, at Noon.) LONDON. October 10. The impression that Palestine is on the brink of dramatic and historic changes is strengthened, not only by the trend of the conversations between Mr Malcolm MacDonald, Sir Horace Mac Michael and Viscount Gort, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, but by the news that the leading Arab confidants of the exiled Grand Mufti, whose influence spreads throughout Palestine, are coming to London immediately after the termination of the Arab congress at Cairo. In the meanwhile sporadic shootings continue. Two troopships, with two battalions and two companies of British troops, also tank corps details, have arrived at Haifa.

ARAB DEFIANCE THREAT TO EXTERMINATE JEWS. EVEN IF BRITAIN MAKES WAR ON THEIR BEHALF. (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, October 10. Nabih Elzame, President of the Palestine Defence Committee, has sent a telegram to Dr. Weizfnann in terms tantamount to an ultimatum' from the Arabs to the Jews: “Even if you have to be entirely annihilated, the Arabs will not'let you instal yourselves in Arab Palestine. If Britain resorts to war on your behalf, she cannot defend you from the Arab countries of the world.” IRAK FOREIGN MINISTER LEAVES FOR HOME. FURTHER TROOPS DISPATCHED. (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) RUGBY, October 10. The Irak Foreign Minister returns home tonight. Sir Horace Mac Michael has continued conversations with Mr Malcolm MacDonald. The Third Battalion of the Coldstream Guards and the First Battalion of the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers are to be sent from Egypt to Palestine.