UNREST IN PALESTINE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 285, 30 October 1933, Page 7

UNREST IN PALESTINE.

FEAR OF EXTENSION. \ JERUSALEM, Oct. 28. The unrest in Palestine continues and may spread to Trans-Jordania, where precautionary measures are being taken by the authorities at Haifa. The police have arrested members of the Arab executive at Jaffa, including a prominent lawyer. Sullen mobs watched the funerals yesterday of those killed in the recent disturbances, but there was no disorder. The Arabs have commenced a general strike at Jerusalem. A Jaffa message states that twenty Arabs were killed there yesterday. Trouble also developed in several other parts of Palestine. A crowd demonstrating at the railway station at Haifa were trying to smash motor cars when the police were compelled to fire, wounding several. Several of the police were stabbed. The Air Force has rushed a squadron of aeroplanes from Egypt. MILITARY PREPARATIONS. JEWS TERROR-STRICKEN. Received October 30, 11.10 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 29. The Weekly Dispatch’s special correspondent at Jerusalem says that aeroplanes are circling overhead. “As I telephone armed cars patrol the streets. Arab leaders are _ pouring into Haifa and the military authorities are prepared for the gravest eventualities. The situation is tense in several towns and the rioting is spreading. The Jews, becoming terrified, are remaining in their houses,”- he states.