PALESTINE GENERAL STRIKE SPREADS

Northern Advocate, 4 October 1937, Page 5

PALESTINE GENERAL STRIKE SPREADS

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Teiegrapn. — Copyright.] (Received 2.30 p.m.) JERUSALEM, October 2,

The Grand Mufti urges Arabs to return to work, but the general strike movement has been intensified. Hooligans drenched vegetables with kerosene, and strewed the road with nails. Arab women will demonstrate against the deportations.

Arrests at Jaffa Include All Babagh, head of the Moslem Youth Group, ard other notables, who have been sentenced to six months. Four Jewish communists have been deported.

H.M. cruiser Sussex has returned to Haifa after having transferred five Arab leaders to the destroyer Active, en route to the Seychelles Islands. , A decree has been issued which renders the Grand Mufti ineligible for appointment to the presidency of the Supreme Moslem Court, to which bis supporters were endeavouring to secure his election.

New arrests include three notables at Jaffa. These have resulted in threats of general strikes there and at Nablus.

Important Documents Found.

Many important documents were found in the bank. An Arab, on refusing to halt after being challenged by a British sentry, was fatally shot.

The departure of the Royal Sussex Regiment from Palestine to Egypt has been cancelled. Only Husseni evaded arrest. The others are on board the Sussex, destined for the Seychelles.

All is now quiet, but police leave has been cancelled and armoured cars are patrolling the highways. All officers and troops have been instructed to carry revolvex*s and side arms respectively.

The Government’s coup is believed to have nullified concerted action by the Arabs, who boast that others will carry on the campaign.