ARABS AND JEWS

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 1 November 1933, Page 9

ARABS AND JEWS

RIOTING IN PALESTINE PLAIN SPEAKING BY BRITAIN. OBLIGATIONS TO BOTH RACES ENGLAND WILL HONOUR. BOND (British Official Wireless.) Received 1.0 p.m. to-day. RUGBY, Oct. 31. The magnificent new harbour at Haifa, the first to bo constructed in Palestine since Herod built Port Caesarea. in honour of his Imperial patron, was formally opened to-day. It transforms the unprotected roadstead into the finest harbour in the Levant. Under British rule Palestine regained her preeminence as a trading centre and as a highway joining Western Asia with Northern Africa. Palestine is actually one of the most prosperous countries in the world to-day and Haifa is the nerve centre of its commercial development.

The Colonial Secretary, Sir Phillip Cunldffe-Lister, in a message made outspoken reference to the recent riots. He said: “To-day’s ceremony is overshadowed by the deplorable disturbances which "have taken place. I would speak very plainly to the people of Palestine. Thirteen years ago Great Britain accepted the mandate of Palestine. The mandate carries with it a clear duty to the Arabs anti to the Jews. That duty will be discharged fully and fairly, without fear or favour. There is, under the mandate, an obligation to facilitate the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, but at the same time there is an equally definite obligation to safeguard the rights of all the inhabitants of Palestine. Both obligations will he most carefully obsessed! Plans are now in hand which will materially benefit all classes of the community. That work will go forward but there is a paramount duty to preserve law and order. That duty, too, will be most thoroughly discharged.