MOSLEM HOSTILITY

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 11 April 1925, Page 7

MOSLEM HOSTILITY

*TO EARL BALFOUR

SEVERAL DEMONSTR.ATIO NS

li Y CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT DAMASCUS, April 9. When the Earl of Balfour arrived to-day crowds demonstrated outside the hotel. TKe manager rushed to the Earl of Balfour’s room and Hosed thefr.-shutters and turned oh the hg ts. lie oilow'd hurled stones at, the hatony, hitting a dragoman. Ihe forced back the 'demonstrators t rom tl e hotel to the square oppos.te, where flery speeches were delivered. be\era.l of the demonstrators weie a - tested arid quiet was restored by eV NiuneVous police remained in the vicinity of the hotel all night The morning was quiet but the barmans Were ctoied in antrcipation of a big demonstration. The Earl of Balfom remained at the hotel. . At the conclusion of pi aye is in t nection with the Ramadan festivall a j crowd of sis thousand marched in the direction of the Earl of .Balfour s hotel. Syrian gendarmes and police who "attempted to stop the, demonstrators were attacked with, stones. _ \ fifT>hl ensued, in which Saphis paiticipated. Two people, were killed and { seven gendarmes were injured. Une, yap hi officer and three men were also injured. Disturbances also occurred in the Jewish quarter. T . i'-ihe Hon. J. Crargie, M.L.0., who, visited! Palestine last year, inter-. Viewed a few days Dgo, -said thait When lie was in Jerusalem he made inquiries; regarding the relationship between the. people of the various Paces in that land and the conclusion at which he arrived was that .there the ‘ Mohammedans -and Ohristian-s entertained strong hostility agaiiist the influx ot members' of the Jewish race. When Lord Allenby took Jerusalem lib delivered an important .speech to the people, in which he said that the •Turks would be expelled from Palestine, that in future Palestine would be under the protection of the British, and that henceforth all races were to be equal. The announcement by Lord Balfour that the mandate was to be given, to the Zion L-t Association, which, of cour.se, planned to restore the Jews to a position of dominance in, the Holy Land, was in contradiction of the promise's made by Lord Allenby, and all outside the Jewish circles were amazed that- Lord Balfour should, as it were, have gone hack on tile promises made by Lord Allenby. Mr. Craigie was so much impressed with the information conveyed to him that he thought it his duty, when ho reached London to .state his impressions candidly and im reservedly to Lord Balfour, who listened with great interest to his recital of the position and to his representation that if anything could he done t,o, ease the. position. action t should be taken without delay, as it was plain rto him that the future held trouble in store unless a wav opt was found, and condition's eased.”} .