SERIOUS ACTS OF VIOLENCE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21088, 14 July 1938, Page 7

SERIOUS ACTS OF VIOLENCE

LAWLESSNESS IN | PALESTINE “ Sterner Measures Will Be Taken ” British Official Wireless RUGBY, July 12. Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr Malcolm Macdonald (Secretary of State for the Colonies) said he regretted to state that there were yesterday further serious acts of violence in a number of centres in Palestine. The Repulse was remaining at Haifa and 20 officers and 254 men had been landed to assist in maintaining order. OUTRAGES IN PALESTINE LOSSES BY BOTH RACES United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright JERUSALEM. July 12. Several outrages occurred during the day. A Jewess was stoned and seriously injured and a Jew was stoned and stabbed and also seriously hurt. Three bombs were thrown, two harmlessly, but the third injured a Jew. There were seven cases of arson in Jewish premises. An Arab priest, opponent of the exiled Mufti, was shot dead in the old city of Jerusalem. Arabs themselves believed the assasin were not Jews, but Arab terrorists, who suspected the priests of communicating with the police. Bombs thrown into a paper warehouse, wounded two Jews.

ARAB PRIEST KILLED LONG LIFE OF SERVICE Unitfid Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received July 13, 11.35 p.m.) JERUSALEM, July 13. The Arab priest who was assassinated in the old city of Jerusalem, was the Sheikh Alimur El Khatib, who for thirty years was Imam at Dom of Rock in Haram-Esh-Sheif.