PALESTINE ENQUIRY.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19815, 31 December 1929, Page 9

PALESTINE ENQUIRY.

MESSAGE FROM THE

COMMISSION

(BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.)

RUGBY, December 28

The Palestine Commission of Enquiry, ■which ends its sitting to-day, has issued a statement to the people of Palestine.

The statement says: "The witnesses whose evidence we have heard have been drawn from many sections of the community, from most parts of the country, and from all parties. We have had a full measure of assistance and co-opera-tion in our work, and we feel that we take home not merely a record of the recent tragic events, which have so marred the history of this country, but also material which will be most helpful in our analysis of the causes of those events, and suggestions of the highest value from individuals and persons representative of organisations, regarding the steps which should be taken to avoid a recurrence of such outbreaks.

"We have completed the first part, namely the local enquiries. In the more difficult task which lies before us—that of determining the causes of the outbreak and of forming recommendations for the future, we shall be encouraged by the thought that all in this country who were concerned in our enquiry readily co-operated with us. We shall apply ourselves to that task with the full confidence that they will be equally ready to co-operate with us in the conduct of the future policy of this country on such lines as his Majesty's Government, after consideration of our recommendations, may decide to adopt."