ARAB RISING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 177, 27 June 1936, Page 7

ARAB RISING.

DANGER IN TRANSJORDANIA. LONDON, June 26. | 'lie News-Chronicle’s Jerusalem cori'(..pondent says that there is grave danger of the Transjordanin Arabs rising in support of the Palestinian Arabs. Some have already crossed the border and joined the armed hands daily attacking roads and railways.

A- meeting of 200 sheiks has been called at Amman, the capital of Transjordania, to discuss action. The Government realise that trouble in Transjordania would be more serious than in Palestine, where it is a criminal offence to carry arms, guns, and ammunition. On the contrary, the law permits the Transjordanian Arabs to carry rifles and import ammounition. Envoys from Palestine are fomenting discontent among the Bedouins. Another contributory factor in the unrest is that the harvest has been poor for the seventh time in succession, in which the Bedouins find the prospect of indulging in their national pastime of fighting and raiding doubly attractive.

Emir Abdullah, a brother of Feisul, told the correspondent that ho had been holding back his people from joining the disturbances for the past two months, hut it was becoming more and more difficult to restrain them. The Emir is in a tight corner, as Britain contributes £60.000 a year to the country and £12,000 a year to the Emir’s privy purse. The British Transjordanian force is inadequate and is already fully occupied in Palestine. i