MORE UNREST
PALESTINE CRIMES CASES OF MURDER WANTON DESTRUCTION ARSON AT JAFFA By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received October 14, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 14 Sporadic disturbances continue in Palestine, including murders and cases of wounding, arson and the destruction of orange groves, says the Jerusalem correspondent of the Times. The police found two heads in a bag at the Damascus Gate, which were identified as those of Moroccan Arabs who were missing from Jericho. Another despatch from Jerusalem states that three Arabs whom Hassan Sidky Dajany, Arab Nationalist spokesman, was defending in a military court before ho was murdered .yesterday, have been sentenced to death. Arabs entered a cigarette factory, controlled by a British and American company, in Jaffa, held up the employees and set fire to the stock, doing damage estimated at £150,000. HIGH COMMISSIONER RETURN TO JERUSALEM British "Wireless RUGBY, Oct. 13 Sir Hugh MacMiehael, High Commissioner for Palestine, left by the flying-boat Coorong for Alexandria en route to Jerusalem. The Colonial Office states that Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, acting Dominions Secretary, and Sir Hugh completed a thorough examination of the political situation in Palestine preliminary to the receipt of the commission's report at the end of the month. The questions of procedure and policy were extensively examined.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23169, 15 October 1938, Page 13
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