MORE TROOPS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 163, 11 June 1936, Page 7

MORE TROOPS

ARRIVAL IN PALESTINE. ARABS NOT SUBDUED. TWO-HOUR BATTLE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received June 11, 9.20 a.m. JERUSALEM, Juno 10. Another battalion of British troops, bringing the strength up to eight, has arrived in Palestine. Bluejackets arc guarding trains.

The first determined Arab attack on Jewish settlements occnrrod near Armageddon. The firing lasted for two hours, but the Arabs fled when British reinforcements arrived.

JEWS AND ARABS. DEEP-SEATED ANTIPATHY. (Times Cables.) LONDON, June 10. The Jerusalem correspondent of the Times says that the arrival of military reinforcements suggests that the Government will no longer court the moderating influence of Arab leaders to restore order, but will depend primarily on forcible repression of violence. Nevtreheless it is doubted whether military action alone is capable of producing conditions in which the establishment of the Jewish national home can be continued satisfactorily. There is ample evidence of the genuine alarm created among all classes of Arabs by the rapid increase of Jewish immigration in recent years, and, even admitting the effects of agitation and intimidation, there is not the slightest doubt that the present resistance movement is morally supported by the whole Arab population.