PALESTINE TERRORISM
INNOCENTS AS VICTIMS IViTUTALTY CONDEMNED (British Official Wireless.) Heed. 1.15 p.m. RUGBY, Aug. 19. Tin* record recrudescence of violence in Palestine, of which the latest example is the shooting with fatal results of two Jewish nurses at Jaffa, lias deeply shocked public opinion in Britain. Tho crime has been severely condemned by the Arab national committee at Jaffa, and the Jewish national assembly has decided to send a deputation to wait on the High Commissioner, Mr. Arthur Wauchope, and discuss the situation with him.
A communique issued at Jerusalem yesterday says that the High Commissioner expressed the deepest sorrow and abhorrence at the recent brutal murders and attacks made on perfectly innocent people. He was confident I hat, with the exception of some murderous individuals, the whole of the people of Palestine would share his detestation of these horrible crimes, culminating in the murder in-Jaffa of two Jewish nurses when returning to the Jaffa Government Hospital, where they had devoted themselves to the healing of the sick, regardless of race or creed.
The High Commissioner relics on all members of the public, to assist the authorities in the prevention of all acts of attempted murder and violence.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19098, 20 August 1936, Page 6
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