ROUND-UP OF ARAB TERRORISTS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20887, 17 November 1937, Page 9

ROUND-UP OF ARAB TERRORISTS

MOVEMENT BY BRITISH FORCES STRONG OPPOSITION TO REPRISALS

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright JERUSALEM, November 15. Two companies of the Essex regiment and one from the Hampshire regiment, supported by aeroplanes and police, are rounding up a band of Arab rebels, who are taking refuge in the hills around Safed. Heavy firing broke out when they were located, but nightfall hampered further action. Strong measures gre being taken by the Palestine Government in the Jewish quarters, where seven were killed yesterday. Forty Jews have been arrested and interned at Acre. Two large punitive police posts, to be maintained at the inhabitants’ expense, have been established in the districts of Beitisrael and Mahneyhuda.

Ap: eal To Jews A Jewish agency has issued a manifesto calling on the Jewish population to refrain from all measures of reprisals against the Arabs, pointing out the futility and immorality of punishing the innocent, and declaring that the agency will actively combat any terrorist reprisals taken by the Jews.

Delegations from the Arabs and Jews were received by the Chief Secretary of Palestine. Both expressed disapproval over the recent violence, and the Arabs urged the strongest action be taken against the irresponsible elements in both parties. The Jews offered to enlist a special police patrol in the Jewish quarters. A Jerusalem police patrol car arrived In the nick of time to save an Arab policeman from an attack in the centre of the city. His assailant wounded him in the face with a dagger and tried to seize his rifle, but ran off and escaped when the police patrol fired. The railway station in a Jewish settlement at Ainharod, on the Plain of Esdraelon, has been burnt out and the telephone wires severed all over the plain, cutting off communications. In the same area armed Arabs attacked a Jewish police patrol which succeeded in repulsing the attack.

LAWLESSNESS RAMPANT REPRISALS EXPLAINED British Official Wireless RUGBY, November 15. Incidents in Jerusalem give the impression of being in the nature of reprisals undertaken by the more ir-respc-sible elements with the idea of taking the law into their own hands. Such an interpretation is not discredited in some well-informed circles in Jerusalem. It may be hoped that with the coming into force of the new regulations, all sections of the population will remember that the suppression of disorder is the function of the authorities.