ARAB UNREST

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLI, Issue 20441, 11 June 1936, Page 9

ARAB UNREST

EXAGGERATED REPORTS REPORTED British Official Wireless RUGBY, June 8. A statement issued by the High Commissioner for Palestine, states that there is no foundation for the reports which have been published in Egyptian newspapers to the effect: (1) That expanding bullets have been used by the police or troops in Palestine; (2) That certain British soldiers refused to obey their orders; (3) That 50 British soldiers have been killed and wounded. These reports, say. the official statement, are wholly and utterly false. No expanding bullets had been used or will be used by the military forces in Palestine; no British soldier has hesitated to obey orders, and i|o British soldiers have been kil’ed anywhere in Palestine since the beginning of the present disturbance. OUTBREAK OF LAWLESSNESS STRIKERS' USE OF FIREARMS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright JERUSALEM, June 8. A sequel tc the wounding of a woman bus passenger, was a pitched battle by moonlight on a hillside, when three convoys of Cameron Highlanders and police deploying from armoured cars, drove 500 snipers from the war time trenches, after four hours’ fighting. The snipers afterwards fired a fusillade of military bullets. Five bombs were thrown at the girls’ school at Gaza, and another bomb damaged the main railway line. LARGE FORCE OF TROOPS IN USE LAWLESSNESS CONTINUES United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received June 10. 5.5 p.m.) JERUSALEM. June 9. With the second battalion of the Cheshire Regiment, the British troops in Palestine are now seven battalions or nearly two brigades, but the disorders continue. The outrages include incendiarism, roadside ambush and also bomb-throwing In Bethlehem. STERN METHODS FORECASTED MODERATE INFLUENCE DISAPPEARING United Pi ess Association—By Electric Telegraph—-Copyright (Received June 10. 10.15 p.m.) LONDON, June 10. The Jerusalem correspondent of ‘‘The Times” says that the arrival of military reinforcements suggests that the Government will no longer count on a moderating influence on the Arab leaders to restore order, but will depend primarily on forcible repression of violence. Nevertheless, it is doubted whether military action alone will be capable of producing conditions ’in which the establishment of the Jewish national home can be continued satisfactorily. There is ample evidence that genuine alarm has been created among all classes of Arabs by the rapid increase of Jewish immigration in recent years and. even admitting the effects of the agitation and intimidation, there is not the slightest doubt that the present resistance movement is morally supported by the whole Arab population.