RULE IN PALESTINE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19134, 1 October 1936, Page 5

RULE IN PALESTINE

SAFETY OF THE PUBLIC WIDE POWERS GIVEN NEW ARMY COMMANDER (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9.30 a.in. RUGBY, Sept. 29. Ail Order-in-Council relating to martial law in. Palestine was published in the London Gazette to-night. The order enables the High Commissioner to delegate power to Lieut. General J. G. Dill, the general oliieer commanding the forces in Palestine, to make regulations securing public safety and defence in Palestine.

The general oliieer commanding will he able to make regulations on such subjects as censorship, arrest, detection, exclusion and deportation, control of harbours, ports and aerodromes, transportation by land, air, or water, trading appropriation, the control, forfeiture and disposition of properly, and the infliction of communal fines and the forfeiture and destruction of property as punitive measures. These regulations will not he open to challenge in any court of law. Moreover, lbe. power conferred "’ill include the setting up of military courts of trial of offences against these regulations. from the decisions of which there shall, if the’ general officer commanding thinks tit. be no appeal. Ihe proclamation of martial law would not in itself have conferred greater powers over (lie civil population than are already possessed, whereas the present order puls the authorities in possession of clearly defined 1 and unchallenged powers.