SERIOUS SITUATION DEVELOPING.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIIII, Issue 83, 9 April 1920, Page 5

SERIOUS SITUATION DEVELOPING.

RIVAL PROCESSIONS CLASH.

BRITISH TROOPS INTERVENE.

LONDON, April Bth. Late messages from Cairo indicate that a serious situation is developing in Palestine. Troops have been recalled to the western bank of , the SucK Canal. _ . . Moslem-Jewish riots commenced on Sunday and contined on Monday. Already there have been 188 casualties.

The trouble arose through the Moslems celebrating the Feast of Nebimoussa while the Jewsi were celebrating the Passover. The rival processions met in the street and brought the ill-feeling to a hend.. The Moslems resent the Zionist idea that the Jews should govern Palestine though they form a. small minority.

A Moslem procession from Hebron was approaching the Jaffa Gate to Jerusalem when the cry was raisod: "The Jews are attacking us!" The Moslems dashed in at tho gate and attacked all the Jews in the vicinity. The latter were prepared for trouble, and used knives and stones freely.

There were many fights in. the vicinity of the Jaffa Gate until .British troops intervened and stopped the disorders.