STERNER MEASURES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 15 June 1936, Page 5

STERNER MEASURES

DISORDERS IN PALESTINE DEATH PENALTY FOR TERRORISM (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copy right) JERUSALEM, 13th June. Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Wauchope, High Commissioner, has authorised regulations providing the death penalty or imprisonment for life for terrorism, including firing at troops, bomb-throwing with intent to cause death, injury and damage to property, interference with railways, roads, and telephones and other communications,; also empowering collective fines and confiscation of property where persons instigated such offences or had not assisted the authorities in discovering the offenders. During a disturbance near the Church of Nativity at Bethlehem a native constable fired killing an Arab. DEPUTATION GOING TO LONDON LONDON, 12th June. “The Times” Jerusalem correspondent says a deputation of the Higher Arab Committee is going to London immediately, with the intention of explaining the grounds of the present Arab unrest to the British Government. DISTURBED NIGHTS (Received 15th June, 9.15 a.m.) JERUSALEUM, 14th June. The police have offered a total of £14,000 in rewards for information leading to the arrest of the murderers of 23 Jews, three Arabs, Police-Con-stable Bird and an Austrian, who had been killed since the outbreak of the disturbances, the reward in each case being £SOO. Several districts are having disturbed nights, rifles and machine-guns being in action in Eastern Esdraelon for the third night in succession, when the marauders attacked several Jewish settlements. Troops replied with military aeroplanes which flew over illuminating the district. The Arabs retreated, carrying off their casualties. Twenty Arabs at Nablus ambushed a patrol of the Seaforth Highlanders, who captured a wounded man. OPPOSITION TO IMMIGRATION JERUSALEM, 14th June. Despite the presence of eight British battalions and the promulgation of the death penalty, the disturbances continue, including attacks on trains, convoys and escorts. The Arabs are determined to continue hostile demonstrations until Jewish immigration is terminated.