BOMBS AND RIOTS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 198, 5 June 1939, Page 5

BOMBS AND RIOTS

MORE DISORDERS IN PALESTINE. ARABS SHOOT RAILWAY PATROL. TOTAL OF THIRTEEN DEATHS. (United Press Association—Copyright.) JERUSALEM, June 2. Six Arabs were killed, five seriously injured, arid 15 slightly injured by a bomb thrown among buses at Jaffa Gate. .. . Three more bombs were thrown in the main streets, completing the ■disruption of the telephone system. Nearly every line in the city is out of order after a series of explosions in the main underground conduits. The explosions are attributed to sabotage. - During rioting . after the bombing, which wrecked a wide area, Arabs stoned the Jewish traffic. The police ordered the Jews to close shops nearby. An A rah gang shot dead an entire railway patrol, consisting of four British constables and three Jewish supernumeraries, near Kawkilieh, 35 miles north-west of Jerusalem. The gang captured the patrol’s machine-guns and rifles.

REJECTION OF BRITISH PLAN. ARAB DOUBT OF PROMISES. LONDON, June 2. The Beirut correspondent of “The Times” says tho Arab Higher Committee, explaining its rejection of the Palestine White Paper, doubts whether Britain can keep her promises and considers that independence can not be realised if it is conditional on Jewish co-operation. It says the period of transition is not fixed, as Britain claims tho right to prolong it. The committee denies Britain’s right to frame tho constitution and the Jewish right to one-third of the population. The committee further claims a complete prohibition of the transfer of lands to Jews.