ARABS AND JEWS

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19896, 27 May 1936, Page 9

ARABS AND J EWS

i REBELLION IN PALESTINE. i "‘ ’ ATTACK BY ARMED TERRORISTS- ‘ TROOPS STONED AND FIRED AT. lunited Press Assn.——Elsc. Tni. copyright. LONDON, May 25. The Jerusalem correspondent of “19 Daily Telegraph says Palestine now has entered upon its sixth week 01‘ lawlessness which almost approaches open rebellion. _ The whole coastal area from Haifa to Gaza and the area inland from .\azareth to Jerusalem are affected. Armed terrorists are roaming the hills. uprooting valuable trees, including 1900 at the Jewish settlement of Emekheier. These marauders have destroyed communications, bombed omcial bulldings and public vehicles on highwayS. stoned and tired at the police and troops. The Arabs, incited by irresponsible propaganda, believe their salvation de—pends upon resisting the Government. A Fierce right. The fiercest tight so far occurred early this morning in the Jewish colony of .\lesha. near Mount Tabour. Eight British and two Palestinian policemen. who formed a mixed patrol, were i'orced to retreat, owing to their aniinunition running out, before 300 armed Arabs who converged on the colony from several directions. 1 \Vord was sent back to Nazareth, whence a party of North Lancashires advanced to Mesha in extended order. ‘The Arabs. surprised by the sudden lappearance of the troops, rapidly re—‘treated, carrying their wounded. The police suffered no casualties. A dangerous situation arose at Gaza where the police repeatedly charged mobs Who were destroying the insula—tors on the telegraph poles. The Arabs retaliated with stones from roofs, injuring many of the police. Troops who were ordered to assist English families in the neighbourhood ‘owlng to tears of terrorism, brought them into the police barracks. A ißu‘sh soldier was wounded during l this operation. ; Arab GII‘I Killed. Policemen who were searching houses for arms in a village near Nazareth were stoned by women from the roofs. A British police sergeant ‘was injured, after which an omcer ordered his men to fire over the women's heads. .One stray bullet killed an Arab girl. The Jerusalem correspondent of the Times says the village where the ‘Arab girl was killed was Kerrkenna, the Biblican Cana of Galilee. 1 Shots fired by police killed an Arab at Uaza. . The Telegraph‘s correspondent states that the High CommiSSioner. Lieutenant—General Sir Arthur \Vauchope, speaking at an Empire Day celebration at the Levant Fair in Tel Aviv, declared that no strike or violence would cause the Government to deflect one jot from its determination to discharge fully its mandatory obligallons. THE HAND OF ITALY. PROPAGANDA 1N PALESTINE. CAUSE OF MUCH RIOTING. i ,United Press Assn—nice. Tel. Copyrlz‘it. LONDON. May 25. The Cairo correspondent of the Times says an ltalian propagandist recently was active in Palestine. He worked equally among the anti-Zionist Arabs and the ultra—Zionist Jews. Well—informed people believe the propagandist‘s activities have been in—directly responsible for much of the rioting and had blood.