JEWS END STRIKE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23352, 22 May 1939, Page 9

JEWS END STRIKE

JERUSALEM CALMER STREETS IN CONFUSION UTTER AFTER THE RIOTS NUMEROUS CASUALTIES By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright JERUSALEM, May 39 Conditions have returned to normal in Jerusalem with the ending of the Jewish strike. The streets in the Jewish quarter are in the utmost confusion, littered with stones, glass, broken lamp posts, traffic signs and telephone booths. The constable who was wounded in last night's machine-gunning of the police by Jews has died. General Haining, commander of the British forces in Palestine, summoned Zionist leaders to warn them that further disturbances woidd be met with very firm measures. He praised the restraint of the Jews in the past, but said ho regarded the shooting of policemen as murder. The Jews injured n yesterday's disturbances Official Jewish organisations received telegrams from all parts of the world praising them for their resistance. An association of Jewish landlords and property owners resolved to conclude the tax strike until the repeal of the White Paper, which the former Arab Higher Committee also rejected as offering nothing new. Troops at Tel-Aviv rounded up 300 illegal Jewish immigrants seoretly landed on the coast. They were interned. The authorities stated that further illegal migrants would be deducted from the immigration quota. LIBERALS ANNOYED PALESTINE WHITE PAPER GOVERNMENT CRITICISED (Received May 21, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. May 20 Sir Archibald Sinclair and Lord Meston, on behalf of the Liberal Party, have repudiated the Palestine White Paper as "a further example of the Government's characteristic vacillation." They say it represents a surrender to violence, destroys one of the few constructive portions of the peace settlement and discredits the British name.