PALESTINE MANDATE

Evening Star, Issue 23113, 12 November 1938, Page 21

PALESTINE MANDATE

THE WGQUHEAD REPORT ARABS THREATEN GENERAL INSURRECTION Press Association—By Telegraph—dopyright BEIRUT, November 11. (Received November 12, at 11 a.m.) The Palestine Defence Committee issued a manifesto threatening general insurrection if the Woodhead report was implemented, adding that Britain and the Arabs alone must settle the dispute. Jews and the League of Nations were not qualified to interfere. ZIONIST COUNCIL MEETS FULFILMENT OF PROMISES SOUGHT LONDON, November 11. (Received November 12, at 1-30 p.ra.)’ Dr Chiam Weizmann, opening the Zionist General Council, declared that the Palestine Report showed a little understanding of the Jewish tragedy. The anti-Jew forces had_ failed in their attempt to deviate Britain from her policy of the Balfour Declaration and mandate, and the task of the Jews was to achieve a fulfilment of the British promises and a realisation of Jewish rights in Palestine. FURTHER DISORDERS JERUSALEM. November 11. (Received November 12, at T p.m.) 1 The High Commissioner reports that a plane made a forced landing _ near Nablus, and that the pilot was injured. I There has been some recrudescence of sniping, bombing, and sabotage. Six British aeroplanes dropped food by parachute to two Arab villages marooned by a flood north of Nablus,