THREAT TO JEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19757, 11 October 1938, Page 6

THREAT TO JEWS

ARAB PALESTINE AREA SETTLEMENT OPPOSED mssnil.E ANNIHILATION I’LTIM ATUM TO LUAnEIi. (Eire. Tel, Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Oct. 11, 12.30 a.m.) LONDON, Oct,. 10. Na'bih Elzame, the president of the Palestine Defence Committee has sent a telegram to Dr. Chain Wcizmann. president of the Jewish Agency lor Palestine, in terms tantamount to an ultimatum from the Arabs to the Jews, "Even if you have to be entirely annihilated the Arabs will not. let you instal yourselves in Arab Palestine, states the message. “If Britain resorts to war on your behalf she cannot defend you from the Arab countries of the world.”

The impression that Palestine is on the brink of dramatic and historic changes is strengthened not only by the trend of the conversations between the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, and the High Commissioner for Palestine and Viscount Gort, the chief of the Imperial General Stall - , but by the news that leading Arab confidents of the exiled Mufti, whose influence spreads throughout Palestine, are coming to London immediately after the termination of the Arab congress in Cairo. Meanwhile sporadic shootings continue.

Two troop-ships with two battalions and two companies of British troops and also tank corps details arrived at Haifa to-day.

The Third Battalion Coldstream Guards, and the First Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, are to be sent from Egypt to Palestine.