ARAB THROWS BOMBS AT COMPATRIOTS

Southland Times, Issue 23379, 10 December 1937, Page 5

ARAB THROWS BOMBS AT COMPATRIOTS

ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP BUS JERUSALEM, December 8. Bombs were thrown on the houses of two sheiks belonging to the Moderate Party, near the Anglo-Jewish girls’ school. The houses were not damaged. The Arab who threw the bombs has x been arrested. The police found and extinguished a bomb which had been placed under a bus. They were heavily fired on, but no casualties resulted. The oil pipe line near Nazareth was set on fire and telephone lines in the neighbourhood were cut. A goods train on the Lydda-Jerusalem line was fired on. . . The sentence passed on Faraj iviajkassam, an Arab, aged 75, who was sentenced to imprisonment for life for carrying arms, has been reduced to 12 months and his son, aged 22, has been sentenced to imprisonment for life. ;

BRITAIN SATISFIED WITH MEASURES TAKEN

(British Official Wireless) RUGBY, December 8. The Secretary for the Colonies (Mr W. G. Ormsby-Gore) at question tune in the House of Commons said that he was satisfied that all appropriate steps were being taken to deal effectively with terrorist activities in Palestine.