STILL SMOULDERING

Evening Star, Issue 20318, 29 October 1929, Page 12

STILL SMOULDERING

RACIAL DIFFERENCE IN PALESTINE PANIC IK JERUSALEM JEWISH SHOPKEEPER ATTACKED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. JERUSALEM, October 28. (Received October 29, at 11.30 a.m.) The shops were closed and panic .prevailed in the city, consequent on an attack on a Jewish glassware shopkeeper, the boycotters having demanded that he should return 5s to an Arab woman, the purchaser of goods to that amount. The shopkeeper refused, and a crowd of Arabs stabbed him in the neck, destroyed his goods, injured his son, and assaulted a Jewish neighbour who intervened. An Arab policeman allegedly withdrew without protecting the Jews. COMMISSION OF INQUIRY. SITUATION ELECTRICAL. JERUSALEM, October 28. (Received October 29, at 11.30 a.m.) The British commission of inquiry into* the Arab-Jewish disturbances opens to-day amid a situation considerably worse than it was in August owing to the support of co-religionists in the neighbouring countries; also the IndiaArab Congress is breathing threats ol boycott and non-payment of taxes, besides demanding a parliamentary government. In an ordinance the Government states that it will deal sternly with sedition, gun-running, incitement to civil war, and unlawful drilling., TWO ARABS SENTENCED TO DEATH. JERUSALEM, October 28. (Received October 29, at 10 a.m.) Two Arabs were sentenced to death and two to ten years’ imprisonment on a charge of the murder of a Jewess at Safed.