VIEWS EXCHANGED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 55, 7 March 1939, Page 9

VIEWS EXCHANGED.

Consultations On Palestine

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JEWS REPORTED ADAMANT.

British Official Wireless. (Received 11.30 a.m.)

RUGBY, March 6,

The Arab and British delegations of the Palestine conference are meeting again to-day, but chief interest at present centres on the informal meeting called for a late hour to-night between the British and Jewish representatives.

There is at present no indication that the Jewish rejection of the British suggestions for a solution of the Palestine problem has been modified. Newspapers state that the Jews were in close consultation yesterday, and according to some reports the executive of the Jewish Agency will this morning consider counter suggestions for submission to to-night's informal meeting with the British delegation.

.NOTORIOUS ARAB. Death Sentence For Possessing Arms In Palestine. LEADER OF "RED DEATH" GANG (Received 12.30 p.m.) JERUSALEM, March 6. Ahmed Simrin, aged 33, leader of. the "Red Death" gang, who has spent 11 of the last 14 years in gaol, has been sentenced to death for being in possession of arms. At Haifa an Arab jumped on to the running-board of an ambulance and shot Dr. Sternberg, a medical officer in Palestine, in the shoulder.