TROOPS CALLED OUT
STRIKE CAUSES DISRUPTION IN PALESTINE essentialjervices LONDON, April 17. Troops are now manning the telephone exchanges at Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Jaffa, and Haifa, and others aie standing by ready to help in maintaining postal and other essential seivices paralysed by the strike. Reuter’s correspondent reported earlier: “The Palestine Government is considering bringing in British soldiers from the garrison to man railway, postal, telephone, and other services. A Palestine Government statement declared that the strike, involving 50 000 Government employees, was unjustified. The employees were seeking to hold the Government ot the country up to ransom. “The Government is stated tq be seeking, as expeditiously as possible, in consultation with the Secretary ol State for the Colonies, a settlement fair both to the civil service and to the public. Claims for increased cost of living allowances and compensation for hardship caused by the, war are under urgent consideration.’
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 April 1946, Page 7
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