PALESTINE DISCUSSIONS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19886, 13 March 1939, Page 5

PALESTINE DISCUSSIONS

ATTITUDE OF JEWS RECURRENCE -OF VIOLENCE {British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY, March 11. The contents of a letter from the Jewish delegation to the Palestine conference, in reply to the British suggestions, which has been received by the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Malcolm Mac-Donald, have not been published, tout it is understood that they give no indication of any modification of the Jewish objections to these suggestions. .Mr. MacDonald to-night met informally .some , of the Jewish delegates and discussed the situation. The Arab delegates will visit Portsmouth to-morrow as the guests of the Admiralty. Individual acts of violence, which still are occurring in Jerusalem, have necessitated enhanced precautions for maintaining the sanctity and decorum of holy places. Recently, the preacher 3f the El Agsa Mosque was murdered in the city of Jerusalem and British iroops outside Haram Esh Sharif have been fired upon by terrorists within, the sacred enclosure. While no British troops, of a'.iy description have been stationed in Haram Esh Sharif, : t has been found necessary to obtain lermission for the religious authoriies of Haram to locate a small police iost in a room rented for the purpose, mt all the proprieties suitable for the ancity of the locality have been trictly observed and the police were ntirely withdrawn at the time for riday prayers. No British soldiers ave at any time occupied any mosque 1 Jerusalem, whether inside or outde Haram Esh Sharif.