GLOOMY OUTLOOK

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 256, 29 October 1929, Page 7

GLOOMY OUTLOOK

TROUBLED PALESTINE

Government Utters Stern

Warning.

ARABS BREATHE THREATS,

(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright)

(Received 1 p.m.)

JERUSALEM, October 28

The British Commission of Inquiry into the Arab-Jewish disturbances opens to-day amid a situation considerably worse than in August, owing to' the support of co-religionists in neighbouring countries, and in India. The Arab Congress is breathing threats of boycott and the nonpayments of taxes, besides demanding Parliamentary government. In an ordinance the Government states that it will deal sternly with sedition, gun-running, incitement to civil war and unlawful drilling. An Ugly Incident. Shops were closed and panic prevailed in the city consequent on an attack on a Jewish glassware shopkeeper, who, boycotters demanded, should return 5/ to "an Arab woman who purchased goods to that amount. The shopkeeper refused and a crowd of Arabs stabbed him in the neck, destroyed his goods, injured his son and assaulted a Jewish neighbour, who intervened. An Arab policeman allegedly withdrew without protecting the Jews.