EXCITING TWO YEARS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 247, 17 October 1936, Page 9

EXCITING TWO YEARS.

AUSTRALIAN'S ADVENTURES. LONDON, October 12. An adventurous young Australian, Tom Eddisoii, the son of a Canberra pastoralist, lias reached London after an exciting two years with the mounted police in Palestine. The situation has not been exafijso- |j rated, lie says. Arabs, mysteriously li equipped with the latest weapons, have || conducted relentless raids by day and !■ night. Ambushes are sq. frequent that I the police are. not allowed to leave their i barracks except in parties of at least four, accompanied bv an armoured car i with a Lewis gun mounted. Eddison believes that the Arabs would if ! peacefully settle with the Jews if fur- I;' ther immigration were stopped. Many jj j Arabs sold early Jewish settlers large i ' tracts of land at high »prices, and are Jj now devoting their wealth to driving ■ \ the Jews out of the country.They are indulging in every form of ; ; intimidation; one of the more playful pastimes is the destruction of Jewish i orchards. J Bands of Arabs, under cover of night, raid properties and, using sharp knives, j cut clown two or three-year-old orange- i trees. Hundreds of thousands of sap- j lings have been destroyed in recent i months. .... ■ An additional terror is the use by the Arabs of wartime ammunition, which I is misty and grimy, and almost invari- ; ) ably causes a gangrened wound, with fr fatal results. Many Ardbs, however, ij possess 1930 Lee-Enfield rifles and |' ammunition, which arc superior to the jr policc equipment. '/■