FIRMNESS OF BRITAIN

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2305, 6 September 1929, Page 8

FIRMNESS OF BRITAIN

TOWN EDITION

THE LAW IX PALESTINE TO BE FAIRLY ENFORCED ( Aust. and N.Z. Cable) (Official British Wireless.) (Received Kept. (i. 2 p.m.) Rushy, Kept. 5. Bir John Chancellor. British High Commissioner in Palestine, lias issued a proel.nmnlion in which lie refers to the law enacted as a measure of public urgency to provide that courts of trial for criminal cases ■rising out .of the recent disorders will hp composed of British judges. “Representations have been made to me which point, to a belief in the minds of certain people that the trial of persons charged with criminal act s is to he. confined to one section of the population only. This lielief docs not. correctly interpret, the i intentions of the Government, which ar e that since crimes of various descriptions arc known to have been perpetrated by both Arabs and Jews all offenders, without distintion of race or creed, will be brought to trial lie fore the courts to lie set up under this ordinance.” FRENCH WATCH FRONTIER The Colonial Office states that successful action was taken against, a party < of raiding Arabs on the evening of September 3 at, El .Meslia, a village east, of Mount. Tabor, where 20 casualties were inflicted on the raiders while only one soldier was slightly wounded. The French authorities in Syria have posted detachments on the Palestine frontier north of Safed in order to prevent, an incursion of Arabs into British territory. During Wednesday the situation remained generally quiet, and our nircraft. continue to carry out- systematic patrols over tile whole country.