MUCH BLOODSHED.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 204, 29 August 1929, Page 7

MUCH BLOODSHED.

ARABS , GUERILLA WAR Determined Crusade Against The Jews. BRITISH TROOPS' INFLUENCE. (Australian Press Assn. —United Service.) LONDON, August 28. A message from Jerusalem says 2000 armed Arabs are reported to be approaching that city. Much bloodshed occurred at Haifa, where British marines fired on the rioters. The American Consul summoned help in order to prevent trouble at a village in the vicinity.

Desultory firing continued for 32 hours at Kastina. Fortunately it resulted in but few casualties.

A dispatch from Beirut, Syria, says troops were rushed to the Jewish quarter of the capital, of that country, Damascus, as a result of a hostile .demonstration by 20,000 Arabs.

The special correspondent at Jerusalem of the "Daily Express" confirms the news that the position there is decidedly easier. British troops are now stationed in most of the disturbed areas.

The news of the arrival of three more British warships off Haifa caused the residents there to experience a marked sense of relief. Nevertheless the Arabs seemed to have embarked upon a determined guerilla crusade against the Jews.

The principal disturbances have been at Haifa, where a number of Arabs and Jews were killed.

Jerusalem was quiet on Monday afternoon, the situation there being entirely in the hands of the British military command.

Petitions from the Arabs and the Zionists in Palestine demanding the intervention of the League of Nations in the present trouble have reached the secretariat of the League.

It is certain that the situation will be brought before the Assembly on Monday.

An offer of 1000 volunteers for immediate service in Palestine was yesterday cabled to the British Prime Minister, Mr, Mac Donald, by the Jewish citizens of Toronto.

Commenting on the deplorable incidents at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, the "Times" eays: "The outbreaks have been so numerous as to' convey the impression of a premeditated, organised movement which demands a searching investigation, both of the criminals themselves and of those we placed in authority in Palestine. Why were their forces not sufficient to keep the peace, when it was notorious that troubles might arise at any time?

"A better time for an armed insurrection could hardly have been chosen, because most of the Departmental heads are absent on leave. A repetition of this sordid and cowardly civil war must be rendered impossible. Orientals will construe,, .concessions as weakness and the' co-religionists of the Jews and the Arabs will narrowly seek for signs of vacillation. •'■' ' :

"If we shrink from our plain jluty fresh attempts to wrest new concessions are bound to follow not only in Palestine, but on the part of some fomenters of disorder in other lands."