FROM SYRIA.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 206, 31 August 1929, Page 9

FROM SYRIA.

Arab Forces Reported Entering Palestine.

AIRCRAFT TO CHECK THEM.

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received 1.30 p.m.) 1 '■ RUGBY, August 30. The Colonial Office states that the situation, both in Palestine and Transjordania continues quiet. Considerable forces of Arabs are reported to have crossed the Syrian frontier into Palestine, and this morning aircraft have been dispatched to check their progress.

HOOVER'S ADVICE.

SAFE IN BRITAIN'S HANDS.

Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) WASHINGTON, August 30.

The, President of the United Stated, Mr. , Herbert Hoover, sent a telegram to Zionists" who held a mass meeting at New York. He said he knew the whole world acknowledged the fine spirit shown by the British Government in accepting the mandate over Palestjae in order that, under its protection, there might be established a homeland so long as it was desired by the Jews.

Mr. Hoover j3aid he was confident that the outcome of the tragic events of the past few days would be greater security and greater safeguards for the future, under" which the steady rehabilitation of Palestine as a true homeland for the Jews would be even more assured.

A message from New York says Mr. W.E. Borah, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate, addressed the Zionist meeting. He urged caution and laid stress on tlit difficulties which must accompany the formation of a Jewish nation in Palestine.

Mr. Borah said it was very difficult to understand how the disorders could have happened. If he knew where the blame rested he would not hesitate to speak, but he did not know.

The implication in Mr. Borah's speech was that the United States should takeno action which could possibly embarrass Britain in the solution of the problem.