GRAVE OUTLOOK IN PALESTINE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20850, 5 October 1937, Page 7

GRAVE OUTLOOK IN PALESTINE

ARAB LEADERS DEPORTED ' INDUSTRIAL HOLD-UP THREATENING BRITISH OFFICIALS IN DANGER Jnlted Press Association—Bi Electra Telecrnnh coovrlght JERUSALEM, October 3. The Grand Mufti urged the Arabs to return to work, but the general strike movement has become intensified. Hooligans drenched crates of vegetables with kerosene, and strewed the roAds with nails. Arab women will demonstrate against the deportations. The attests at Jaffa include All Dabagh, head of the Moslem Youth and other notables, who were sentenced to six months. Four Jewish ists were deported. ARAB LEADERS DEPORTED WORK OF BRITISH NAVY United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copvrtgbt LONDON. October 3. His Majesty's cruiser Sussex, has returned to Haifa, having transferred five Arab leaders to the destroyer Active, proceeding to the Seychelles on Sunday.

“SAME FATE AS ANDREWS AND McEWEN” REASON FOR PROMPT ACTION United Press Association —Bs Electric Telegraph Copvrlahl LONDON, October 3. The Jerusalem correspondent of the British United Press says that the Government’s action on October 1 was prompted by the fact that a number of the senior British officials had received threatening letters during the past few days, in which they were advised to give up their posts or suffer the “same fate as Andrews and McEwen.”