BRITISH, METHODS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 23, 24 December 1938, Page 7

BRITISH, METHODS

ARAB ACCUSATIONS. CONDITIONS IN PALESTINE. GERMAN PROPAGANDA. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Times Cables.) Received December 24, 5.5 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 23. Tlie Times Berlin correspondent says the German Press gives prominence to a telegram from “the Palestine Arab Committee” sent from London and issued by the official German News Agency alleging “incredible brutalities” by British troops in Palestine. Top—Japan’s Terms

The telegram alleges that the British troops are gouging out the eyes of Arabs before killing them, anti also are torturing the disinterested civilian population. “The popular method to bring them to heel is a riding whip, which nearly every Englishman carries,” the telegram allegedly states. The German News Agency’s Beirut correspondent reports an Arab newspaper as saying that British troops at Attil shut up three Arabs in a shed, which was then set alight; burning them alive.

The same newspaper is also quoted as saying that all Christians in Palestine and Lebanon are refraining from Christmas celebrations “as a token of grief at the terrible conditions of the country.”

TOTALLY UNTRUE.

EMPHATIC BRITISH DENIAL. CONDUCT OF TROOPS. ' (British Official Wireless). Received December 24, 10.25 a.m. RUGBY*, Dec. 23. The War Office to-day denied emphatically the slanderous allegations against the conduct of the British troops in Palestine, which appeared in the German Press. The latest statements in this campaign, which allege atrocities such as the gouging out of the eyes of prisoners and t’ne burning of prisoners alive in a shed, are untrue. .