CONCERN IN BRITAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 7, 8 July 1938, Page 9

CONCERN IN BRITAIN

ORDERS TO WARSHIPS

DISPATCH TO HAIFA

(Received July 8, 12.40 p.m.)

LONDON, July 7.

Government concern at the terrorism in Palestine, where 33 persons have been killed, of whom 25 were 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.B.

"The Times" says that the present { wave of outrages stands out only in j relief from, many months of lawlessness. Each week ten to twelve Jews and Arabs have been murdered and 50 to 80 wounded. Most of the out- j rages have been committed against isolated Jewish communities, and the majority until now have been commiti ted 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 counter-terrorism. The Jerusalem correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that precautionary arrests are being made on a large scale. They include Dr. Waschitz, a local Zionist and revisionist leader. Police searched the offices, of the Jewish Labour Federation. British police have largely replaced Arab and Jewish constables, who can no longer be relied on.