GRAVE TENSION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 256, 30 October 1933, Page 7

GRAVE TENSION.

IN THE HOLY LAND. PALESTINE RIOTING. Many Arabs Die Making Protests Against Jew Migration. ARMED CARS PATROL STREETS. • (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, October 29. The "Sunday Dispatch" special Jerusalem correspondent says: "Aeroplanes are circling overhead as I telephone. Armed ears patrol the streets, and Arab leaders arc pouring into Haifa. The military authorities are prepared for the gravest eventualities.

"The situation is tense in several towns and rioting is spreading. The Jews are becoming terrified and are remaining ii> their houses." Twenty Arabs were killed in Jaffa on Saturday. Trouble also developed in several other parts of Palestine. A crowd was demonstrating at the railway station at Haifa, trying to wreck motor cars, and the police were compelled to fire, wounding several. Some of the police were stabbed. The Air Force rushed a squadron of aeroplanes to Jaffa from Egypt. A telegram from Jerusalem says the unrest caused by the Arab protests against Jewish migration continues and may spread to Transjordania, where precautionary measures are being taken by the authorities. The police arrested members of the Arab executive at Jaffa, including a prominent lawyer. Sullen mobs watched the funerals of those killei* iii recent disturbances, but there was no disorder. The Arabs* have begun a general strike in Jerusalem. British Non-Com. Fires Shots. Baton charges dispersed a fresh at-' tempt to penetrate the police cordon at Jerusalem. The rioters' home-made j bombs exploded harmlessly. Stones were thrown and sticks used, compelling a British non-commissioned officer to fire a few shots. Two of the rioters were killed and 15 taken to hospital. Veiled women, screaming from housetops, incited the mob. The whole city is filled with excited Arabs eager to demonstrate. They compelled Jewish shops to close in the main street, and smashed one Jewish establishment. They also compelled one British tradesman to put up tho shutters. Members of the Arab executive were arrested. Others protested against the police firing at Jaffa and demanded the release of their leaders. They decided to protest to the Arab kings and to the League of Nations. Arab shopkeepers and motor bus owners continue to strike. A flight of aeroplanes is parked at Cairo in readiness for any emergency, but so |ar they have not been required. The - police have full control of the situation. Curfew is effective at nightfall. At Jaffa the trouble is apparently quelled. All Arab papers are suspended at Damascus.