SIR ARTHUR WAUCHOPE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 79, 2 March 1938, Page 9

SIR ARTHUR WAUCHOPE.

FAREWELL FROM PALESTINE. (Times Cables.) Received March 2, 11.5 a.m. LONDON, March 1. The Jerusalem correspondent of th« Times says army officers, civil servants, foreign consuls, all the religious heads and numbers of British, Arab and Jewish friends fa.rewelled General Sir Arthur Wauchope on *elinquishing the High Commissionership in Palestine. It says ranch for his impartiality that he leaves the country without anyone knowing whether he is really pro-Arab or pro-Jewish. PALESTINE COMMISSION. THREE MEMBERS CHOSEN. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Feb. 28. Three members of the- Palestine Partition Commission have been appointed, 'and the appointment of the fourth member is still under consideration. Sir JohnAYoodhead, who has had a distinguished career in the Indian civil service, will be chairman. Sir Alison Russell, who after a legal career in the colonies, retired in 1929 from the chief justiceship of Tanganyika, and Mr A. P. Waterfield, principal assistant-secretary in the Treasury, are' other members. The commission will start work in England about the middle of March, and will probably leave for Palestine about a month later. ARAB RAIDERS. JEWISH TOWN BOMBED. Received March 2, 9.35 a.m. JERUSALExM, March 1. Thirty armed Arabs raided and bombed a lonely Jewish village in the Jordan Valley to-day. They were driven off after a three-hour battle in which one raider was killed.