PALESTINE RIOTS.
NIG'sHIT RAID BY ARAB‘S. ’ AIR-PORT AND RADIO STATION. (United Press Association-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.) JERUSALEM, June 16. Arabs made a night raid on the Lydda Airport and Hamleh Broadcasting Station. They were repulsed by Guards after burning lorries and. a storehouse. STATEMENT 0N CAUSES REFUSED QUESTIONS IN THE COMMONS. LONDON, June 15. The Secretary of State for the Col—onies (Mr \V. ormsby Gore) declined to make a statement in the HOuse of Commons on the causes of the recent unrest in Palestine on the grounds that they would be among the matters for investigation by the proposed Royal Commission. Replying to a supplementary question Mr Ornisby Gore declared emphatically that the commission could only be set up when law and order were fully restored in Palestine. There were other supplementary questions which went unanswered, but the Secretary of State intervened to contradict “clearly and definitely” the incidental suggestion that the Grand Mufti was paid a salary by the British Gorernment.—-British Official Wireless.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 209, 17 June 1936, Page 5
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