FRICTION IN PALESTINE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20367, 23 September 1929, Page 11

FRICTION IN PALESTINE.

ARABS AND TIIE JEWS.

BITTERNESS STILL EVIDENT.

STRINGENT CONTROL METHODS.

Australian Press Association—United Service (Received September 22, 5.5 p.m.).;.. LONDON. Sept. . 21.

The Daily Mail's special correspondent ' at Jerusalem slates that although tho authorities have succeeded in restoring some semblanco of order in tho city precautions are still deemed necessary, suggests that confidence hangs by a slender hair.

The curfew regulation has been extended to 9 p.m., hut tho new order reenacts that it is still illegal for anybody to carry a weapon—even a stick. This has resulted in the disappearance of %valking sticks for fear they might attract tho attention of the police, who have tho widest powers of arrest without warrant. Assemblies of the public are still prohibited by the authorities, who are convinced that tho Bolsheviks are playing a big part in tho disturbances. Several Communists were arrested in a raid at Haifa last night.

Bilter feeling between the Jews and Arabs still prevails. Another message from .Jerusalem says the Commission of Inquiry into the alleged mutilation of Jews at Hebron has reported that the Moslem and Jewish medical men disagreed as to tho injuries to tho first body exhumed. Three other bodies showed no signs of mutilation. Tho remaining 16 wero too decomposed to establish mutilation or otherwise. The Jews, therefore, have requested that tho exhumations shall cease.