JEWS BLAMED FOR STRIFE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 September 1929, Page 5

JEWS BLAMED FOR STRIFE.

©RAND MUFTI SUSPECTS THEM ) OF ULTERIOR MOTIVES.

(By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Australian Press Assn, and Sun.) (Received This Da\’, 10.5 a.m.) JERUSALEM, Sept. 8.

.Jewish ambition and greed Averc deliberately responsible for provoking the Arabs’ attacks, in order to gain world-Avide support for the re-opening of the Wailing Wall question and the influencing of the British Labour Government to amend the status quo, asserts, the Grand Mufti, in stating the Arab viewpoint. He declared that the JeAvish demonstration at the Wailing Wall on August 15th Avas due to political, not religious motives. JeAvish people made a procession to the Arab fjjuartors, insolently threatening Moslems. Subsequently there were many ■Jewish attacks on Arabs —men, women and children. The news spread that the Jews were attacking Arabs and that their holy places Averc endangered, resulting in a rising throughout the country. Jews were still attacking Arabs, and the avouucls in most cases shoAvcd that the Arabs Avere armed Avith knives and sticks and Jews Avith revolvers and rifles.