PALESTINE VIOLENCE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 119, 16 November 1937, Page 10

PALESTINE VIOLENCE

ARABS AND JEWS

DISAPPROVAL EXPRESSED

United Press Association—By. Electric Tel«graph—Copyrleht, (Received November 16, 2.10 p.m.) JERUSALEM, November 15. Two companies of the Essex Regiment and one of the Hampshire Regiment, supported by aeroplanes and police, are rounding up a band of Arab rebels which took refuge in the hills around Safed. Heavy firing broke out when the Arabs were located but nightfall hampered the action. Strong measures have been taken by the Palestine Government in the Jewish quarters, where seven were killed yesterday. Forty Jews have been arrested and interned at Acre. Two large punitive police posts, to be maintained at the inhabitants' expense, have been established in the districts of Beit-Israel and Mahne-Yehiida. The Jewish agency has issued a manifesto calling on the Jewish population to refrain from all measures of. reprisals against Arabs, pointing out^ .the futility and immorality of punishing the innocent, and declaring that the agency will actively combat any terrorist reprisals taken by Jews. Delegations from Arabs and Jews were received by the Chief Secretary in Palestine. Both expressed disapproval of the recent violence. The Arabs urged the strongest action against the irresponsible elements in both parties and the Jews offered to enlist special police to patrol the Jewish quarters. A police patrol car arrived in the nick of-time to save an Arab policeman from attack in the centre of Jerusalem. The assailant wounded him in the face with a dagger and tried to seize his rifle, but ran off and escaped when, the police patrol fired. The railway station and Jewish settlement of Am Harod, in the Plain of Esdraelon, was burnt out and the telephone wires across the plain were severed, cutting off all communication. In the same area armed Arabs attacked a Jewish police patrol which succeeded in repulsing them.