BRITAIN RUSHING TROOPS TO PALESTINE

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 242, 9 July 1938, Page 11

BRITAIN RUSHING TROOPS TO PALESTINE

Unprecedented Wave

Of Outrages

GOVERNMENT’S GRAVE

CONCERN

Gangs Organised For

Terrorism

Bv Telegraph—Kress Assn. —Copyright LONDON, July 7.

Government concern tit the terrorism in Palestine, where 33 persons have been killed, of whom 25 weie Arabs, and nearly 150 injured in the past two days, is shown by the hurried dispatch of two British battalions from Egypt and the diversion of the cruiser Emerald by radio from her homeward course to Haifa, where H.M.S. Repulse will relieve her on July 8. “The Times” says that the present wave of outrages stands out only in relief from many months of lawlessness. Each week 10 to 12 Jews and Arabs have been murdered and 50 to 80 wounded. Most of the outrages have been committed against isolated Jewish communities, and the majority until now have been committed by Arab terrorists and have been by no means representative of the whole of Arab feelings. Now the Jews seem to be arming some of the wilder youths and organising gangs for counterterrorism.