PALESTINE UNREST
EFFORTS FOR PEACE HIGH COMMISSIONER'S PLEA JERUSALEM, August 8 The High Commissioner and Com-mander-in-Chief in Palestine, Sir Harold McMichael, in a brief broadcast, did not refer to Mr. Malcolm McDonald's secret visit. He appealed to all sections to work for peace. "Those practising violence while pressing their demands," he said, "do tho worst possible service to their cause, and only prove to the world that they are unfit to govern, while making it incumbent on tho Government not to givo way." FURTHER VIOLENCE THE CURFEW IMPOSED British "Wireless , RUGBY, August 8 In a telegram to the Colonial Office, the High Commissioner in Palestine reports that early this morning a Jew was shot and dangerously wounded on tho outskirts of Jerusalem. In Tiberias, following the explosion of a bomb in tho Arab market, which injured nino Arabs, one seriously, as well as stone throwing, in which a Jew was slightly hurt, a 22-hour curfew was imposed on residents in tho old part of the town.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23112, 10 August 1938, Page 13
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