ARABS DEFIANT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 November 1938, Page 5

ARABS DEFIANT

PACIFICATION PROBLEMS IN PALESTINE ADMIRAL CALLED IN CONFERENCE WITH MILITARY AUTHORITIES OMINOUS PORTENTS OF FURTHER DISORDER By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, October 31. The “Daily Mail’s” Haifa correspondent says that Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet, will arrive there in his flagship Warspite on November 1, and will then fly to Jerusalem to confer with the military authorities. The conference coincides with the campaign’s entering a decisive stage. The Arabs have organised a general Strike to begin on November 1. In opposition to the Government’s order requiring everyone journeying even on a a donkey to possess a permit, the Arabs refuse to apply for this because of the threat of death for compliance with the order issued by the rebel leaders. Accordingly the whole Arab population has been brought to a standstill and trade between the villages and towns has ceased. The Government has taken steps to maintain the water supply, the sanitary services and electric power and lighting, run mainly by Jewish labour, which will be protected. It is regarded as omonous that all moneyed Arabs in northern Palestine have crossed the Syrian border on a motor tour. The Galilee, Haifa, Safed, Tiberias, and Nazareth area today showed great apprehension, and there is no doubt that the Arabs are animated by a desperate spirit of resistance. STRIKE BEGINS THREATS BY TERRORISTS. APPLICANTS FOR PASSES TO BE KILLED. (Received This Day, 9.10 a.m.) JERUSALEM, November 1. A strike of Arab drivers has begun. The rebel junta threatens death to any Arab applying for a pass which the military have decreed he must possess for travel between towns. WIDESPREAD HOLD-UP DISORDERS IN SEVERAL TOWNS. HOUSE TO HOUSE SEARCH BY TROOPS. (Independent Cable Service.) (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) JERUSALEM, November 1. The strike is stated to be one hundred per cent effective. Arab shops are closed throughout the country. Four hundred Arab labourers have not reported for work at the Irak Petroleum Works at Haifa, where the railway workshops are closed. Disorders are reported at Jaffa, Haifa and Nablus. Troops are conducting a house r to house search.

KING OF IRAK HOPES OF ACCEPTABLE SOLUTION (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) BAGHDAD, November 1. King Ghazi, in his speech at the opening of Parliament, said Irak’s recent efforts on behalf of the Arabs in Palestine probably would result in a solution acceptable to the Arabs in the immediate future.