VIOLENCE IN PALESTINE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19023, 25 May 1936, Page 5

VIOLENCE IN PALESTINE

MANY SHOOTING AFFRAYS EMERGENCY MEASURES CHECK TO TERRORISM (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) JERUSALEM, May 23. Following the repulse yesterday of an Arab raid on a food convoy at Haifa, an attempt was made to set fire to the Levant Fair.' It is understood that emergency measures are being introduced to control all traffic. Seaforth Highlanders are guarding the main, points in the Holy City, and the police, wearing steel helmets, are patrolling the streets. The Emir Abdullah rebuffed Arab overtures for his support. He deprecated violence and advised the acceptance of a Royal Commission. The authorities are tightening up measures dealing with the Arab-Jewish tension. They have prohibited the Arab strike leaders from leaving the towns in which they reside, and have interdicted a conference of Arab mayors at Kamallah. The authorities have also prohibited motorists without permits using the roads, this course being taken in order to prevent terrorists carrying out motor raids, in consequence of which all the road traffic at present is convoyed by troops. The train service has been reduced and night trains cancelled. All trains carry a military escort.

Many shooting affrays are reported throughout the country. Incendiaries set fire to the police cricket pavilion at Nazareth.

A bomb was thrown into an open cinema, injuring two of the audience at Haifa, where Arab boatmen struck. There are at present 5000 British troops in Palestine, including a tank corps. »