THE NEW ZION.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16215, 18 May 1918, Page 9

THE NEW ZION.

(By Cable.—Prees Association.—Copyright.)

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

(Router's Telegrams.)

LONDON. May 16. Speaking at an official dinner given by the Governor of Jerusalem, Dr. Weizemann, of the Jewish Mission to Palestine, explained the aims of the Zionist Commission. He said that the Jews were returning again to Palestine to create a great moral and intellectual centre, under conditions of development whereby the Jewish people would not be a detriment to any great communities already established. All the feafs of the Arabs, that they would be crushed, were unfounded.

Tho Jews did not intend to take supreme political power in Palestine iiito their hands after the war. They tiesired that supreme political authority should be vested in one of tho civilißcd democratic Powers, to be selected by a League of Nations. This Power should hold Palestine in trust until selfgovernment was' practicable. Jewry would choose that Power, and would announce its decision after the *»ar. The Zionists did not believe that the internationalisation of Palestine, or any form of multiple political control, could be tolerated. Armenian massacres in the Caucasus and the Jewish massacre in Turkestan showed that Arab, Jew, and Armenian must stand united, m order to resist the forces of darkness and oppression that were threatening to overwhelm the civilised world.

CAIRO TO PALESTINE.

(Router's Telegrams.) (Received Ma y 17th, 8.30 p.m.)

CAIRO, May 10

The swing bridge across the Suea Canal at Kantara, was completed on May .loth, thus affording direct railway communication from Cairo to Palestine.