ARABS AND JEWS

Evening Star, Issue 22366, 16 June 1936, Page 9

ARABS AND JEWS

THE PALESTINE DISTURBANCES TERRORISTS CONTINUE ACTIVE Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright JERUSALEM, June 13. (Received Juno 16, at 11 a.m.) Terrorists continue to defy the death ipenalty by setting fire to buildings and throwing bombs, mostly duds. Snipers wounded two Gordon Highlanders. The damage to Jewish property is estimated at £150,000. The Arabs assert that they are losing £1.000,000 monthly in trade and wages, but have not suffered much property damage. COLONIAL SECRETARY RETICENT (British Official RUGBY, Juno 15. (Received Juno 16, at 1 p.m.) The Colonial Secretary declined to make .a statement in the House of Commons on the causes of the recent unrest in Palestine, on the grounds that they will bo among the matters for investigation by the proposed Royal Commission. Replying to a supplementary question, Mr Ormsby-Gore declared emphatically that the commission would only be set up when law and order were fully restored in Palestine. There were other supplementary questions, which went unanswered, but the Colonial Secretary intervened to contradict “ clearly and definitely ” the incidental suggestion that the Grand Mufti was paid a salary by the British Government.