PALESTINE UNREST
ESTIMATES OF DAMAGE.
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(Received June 16, 11.30 a.m.)
JERUSALEM, June 15
Terrorists continue to defy the death penalty, 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 they are losing a million sterling monthly in trade and wages, but have not suffered much property damage.
MINISTER’S DENIAL
[BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.]
RUGBY, June 15
The Colonial Secretary declined to make a statement in the Commons, on the causes of the recent unrest in Palestine, on the grounds that they would be 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 supplementaries 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.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 June 1936, Page 7
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