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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 70, 19 September 1936, Page 9

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PALESTINE POLICY BRITISH GOVERNMENT FIRM WORK FOR PEACE fßrlt'sb Official \Vireless.) (Received September 19, 1 p.m.) RUGBY, September 18. Mr; W. Ormsby-Gore, Secretary for the Colonies, in a speech at Stafford yesterday, said, that the Government did not subtract anything from, or add anything'to, its recent statement- of policy in Palestine. The Government had made it perfectly clear that it could not be .diverted from its policy by shooting of British soldiers or by acts of terrorism and violence. To secure peace was the Government's sincere hope, That was what they were working for in Spain. Never had Britain been in greater need of young men ,to defend her.. and her liberties against the overspill of ideas from the Continent of Europe. NO PEACETOR JEWS ARAB ATTACK IN PALESTINE JERUSALEM; September 18. ArabG, determined that Jews shall not spend a peaceful Jewish New Year, attacked an , orange colony at .Nessziona. ' The police beat off the marauders, who burned down a flourrnill at Samakh and attacked a patrol of the Eleventh Hussars, who suffered no casualties. DUKE'S ADDRESS TO TROOPS (British Official Wlreless.7 (Received September 19, noon.) RUGBY, September 18. The Duke of York, as Colonel of the Scots Guards, visited Aldershot today and made a farewell inspection of the Second Battalion, which leaves Aidershot for Palestine on Sunday. In his address the. Duke said: "You are going to Palestine under more or less active service conditions. The situation there is very delicate,'and your duty will be to maintain law and order—a task that carries with it very heavy responsibilities and calls for the utmost tact. As your, colonel, I expect you by your behaviour, bearing, and appearance both on and off parade, and particularly in your association with the civilian population, to uphold the good name of his | Majesty's Foot Guards."' ■•■■>,■: