IN PALESTINE

Hokitika Guardian, 2 May 1939, Page 5

IN PALESTINE

DEATH SENTENCE

FOR MURDER OF CONSTABLE.

(Unified Press Association--By Electric

Telegraph—Copyright)

(Received this day at 1.15 p.m.) JERUSALEM, May 1

Two Arabs brothers were sentenced to death for the murder of a British constable on April 19.

Five Britons were killed and seven wounded, and twenty-three armed Arabs killed and thirteen wounded, among 116 killed and wounded, as the result of outrages in Palestine in April. ARAB PROPOSALS. LONDON, April 30. The "Daily Telegraph’s” Cairo correspondent sajs that Mohammed Mahmoud Pashna, Prime Minister, and Ali Maher Pasha, head of the Royal Cabinet, presided at a conference of Palestinian Arabs, representatives of the Arab States, and Indian Moslems, which adopted, for forwarding to the British Government proposals for a Palestine settlement, embodying the creating of a Government of Palestinian Arabs and British advisers when peace is restored. It is proposed that there should be general control of land sales arid acceptance of 75,000 immigrants in . the next five years, the Jewish element not exceeding* one-third of the total at the end of that- period. It is also proposed that a constituent Assembly should meet in 1943, in order to draft a constitution.