TENSION IN HOLY LAND
NO SIGN OF RELIEF START OF FIFTH MONTH ARAB CONGRESS BANNED (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Aug. 20, 3 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 19. The Jerusalem correspondent of The Times says that the. beginning of the fifth month of the. Arab strike brings no sign of relaxation. The Government, Arabs and Jews seem equally unmoved from their apparently irreconcilable positions.
The struggle some weeks ago appeared to have settled down to a protracted war of attrition and the abnormal situation became normal through familiarity, but if is now seen that liie country is in a. state of nerves where an explosion of huge dimensions is possible. The Government has withdrawn permission for a congress of representatives of local Arab committees which was summoned for to-morrow, owing to the tense state produced by the Jaffa murders. Jaffa, however, is believed to have been sufficiently sobered by a strict 24-hour curfew, and to-morrow only the usual dark hours of restriction will he enforced, though certain quarters are not included in ibis relief.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19099, 21 August 1936, Page 13
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