DISORDERS IN PALESTINE

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 29 August 1929, Page 9

DISORDERS IN PALESTINE

ARAB MANIFESTO. CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE. PAST POLICY BLAMED. t-inilsd Ptoam AMociatioji—3) Kl«i-».nc TVlctfntui. Copyright.) \ o»i.rauai) P:ees Assooun-nn , Received 12.25 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Aug. 28. A manifesto sent to London from Jerusalem on behalf of the National Arab League, asserts that the troubles have arisen through the policy of the past decade in despoiling the Arabs of their political rights and attempting to build up a non-existent Nationalist poiicy upon the ruins of Arab nationality in pursuance of the Balfour dell aration. Permanent peace can only lie secured by conceding the just Arab demands and abolishing the Balfour declaration.

FRENCH SEND BATTLESHIP TO SYRIA.

(Pnik-ci Assignation —By Eiectrir Tt-lcgraph Copyright.) —United Service). Received 12.25 p.m. to-day. PARIS, Aug. .28.

The French Government, in view of the serious disorders in Palestine, is despatching the battleship Lamotte I’icq net to Syria.

LITTLE CHANGE IN SITUATION

AIR. FORCE MACHINES AT

WORK

ARABS HELD IN CHECK

British Official Wireless. RUGBY, Aug. 28,

■ The Colonial Office state that there is little change in the situation in Palestine. Jerusalem, Jaffa and Haifa are reported to be quiet. The disorder in the neighbourhood of the lastnamed . place l is being satisfactorily dealt with bv a naval detachment from the warship Barham. Aircraft have been employed in reconnoitring the disturbed areas, and fire from the air lias been opened on ‘ parties _ of Arabs in the neighbourhood' of Haifa, Ramleh. and on the hills around Jerusalem. A strong Arab concentration was reported south-east of Gaza, but aircraft have been unable to. locate any parties of Arabs in the neighbourand no attack lias so far materialised.

Last night continuous attacks, on Beit Alpha, four miles west of Beisnn, were successfully repulsed by a detachment of the trams-Jordan frontier for e. Telephone lines from Jerusalem to Nazareth. Haifa and Tibe Ins are reported to he cut. The 1 situation in trans-Jordan is reported to be normal. No reinforcements other than those mentioned in yesterday’s statement have been despatched to Palestine.