PALESTINE QUIETER

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 207, 29 May 1936, Page 11

PALESTINE QUIETER

Sporadic Lawlessness DISCUSSION AT GENEVA (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, May 27. An official communique issued at Jerusalem denies that any British soldier had been killed in the course o; the disturbances. A denial is alsogiven to a report in circulation to the effect that a police patrol had been surrounded by a mob at Gaza and severely beaten. The communique records sporadic outbreaks of lawlessness in tlie preceding 24 hours, but the only casualty has been the accidental killing of an Arab watchman by an Arab constable in the village of Lydda. Cameron Highlanders patrolling the Jerusalem-Nablus highway were attacked by snipers, and the Highlanders returned the fire. British native police rushed up to assist them, and the Arabs withdrew. There were no British casualties. The High Commissioner states that the agitation throughout the country iias be.m much quieter during the day and that no fresh incidents ’ are reported. The Administration of the Palestine Mandate is on the agenda of the League Mandates Commission, the half-yearly session of which opened at Geneva to-day. A Press message says that the Commission re-elected as its president the Italian member, the Marchese Theodoli, who is attending despite the fact that Italy has been absent from League work, since nl‘ members of the commission are ap pointed in their personal capacity and not as representatives of their respective Governments.