ACUTE UNREST

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 March 1939, Page 5

ACUTE UNREST

RENEWED TERRORISM IN PALESTINE PLANES ENGAGE ARAB BAND. MANY PROTESTS BY JEWS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. JERUSALEM, February 28. Troops are standing by all over Palestine following a renewed outbreak of terrorism. Aircraft co-operat-ing with troops engaged a large Arab band on the main Acre-Safad Road. Nine persons were killed. Jews are holding demonstrations all over the country protesting against the British plan. A number of revisionists were arrested. Street meetings have been forbidden. The Jewish mayor of Tel Aviv appealed for discipline and deplored the outrages which he said were attributable to “irresponsible and conscienceless elements.” The council of the Jerusalem Jewish community has sent aytelegram to Mr MacDonald declaring their will determinedly to combat any proposals contrary to the British war time promises.

ATROCIOUS CRIME ARABS MURDER WOMAN .. & CHILDREN. (Received This Day, 11 a.iri.) JERUSALEM, February 28. Arabs raided an ’ outlying Jewish farmstead and shot dead a mother and her son, wounded another and carried off an eight-year-old boy, who was stabbed to death when supernumeraries pursued the attackers. PROMPT RESCUE. i RECOVERY OF KIDNAPPED OFFICER. (Received This Day, 11 a.m.) AMMAN, February 28. Arabs kidnapped the chief British forestry officer for Transjordania and escaped across the Syrian border, the officer being held to ransom. Hundreds of Bedouins and squads of the Arab Legion, mounted on camels, overtook- and engaged an armed party of sixty Arabs on the Syrian border and rescued the officer unharmed.