JEWS AND MOSLEMS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10559, 9 April 1920, Page 5

JEWS AND MOSLEMS

SERIOUS RIOTING OCCURS SITUATION CAUSE'S MUCH DISGUST. MANY FIGHTS AT JAFFA GATE. By Telegraph—Press A s-n.—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.” (Received April 8, 10.40 p.m.) CAIRO, April 7. Disquieting rumours are current re» grading the situation ill Palestine. No letters have been received since Friday and all permits to travel tt Palestine have- been stopped. LONDON, Apipl 7. Late messages from Cairo indicate that a serious situation is developing in Palestine. The troops have been recalled to the- western bank of, the Suez Canal. The Moslem-Jewish riots which commenced on Sunday, mere continued on Monday, and already there are 183 casualties. The trouble arose through the Moslems celebrating the feast of Nehilhoussa, while the Jews were celebrating the Passover. Rival processions met in the streets and brought ill-feeling to a head. The Moslems resent the Zionist idea that the Jews Should, govern Palestine, though they are in a small minority, A Moslem procession from Hebron was approaching the Jaffa Gate at Jerusalem when the cry mas raised: “The Jews are attacking us.’’ The Moslems dashed in at the gate and attacked all .the Jems in the vicinity. The I litter mere prepared for trouble, and used knives and stones freely. x There mere many fights in the vicinity of the Jaffa Gate until the British'troops intervened and stopped, the disorders. ,