ARABS ON STRIKE
DANGEROUS DAYS IN PALESTINE United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright JERUSALEM, November 1. A strike of AraS drivers has begun and the Rebel Junta threatens death to any Arab applying for a pass which the military have decreed they must possess for travel between towns. The strike is stated to be 100 per cent effective. Arab shops have closed throughout the country and 400 Arab labourers have not reported for work at the Iraq petroleum works at Haifa, where the railway workshops are closed. Disorders are reported at Jaffa, Haifa and Nablus, where troops are conducting a house to house search. SOLUTION IN SIGHT IRAQ EFFORTS MAY BE ACCEPTABLE TO ARABS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received November 2, 6.30 p.m.) BAGDAD, November 1. King Ghazi, in a speech at the opening of Parliament, said that Iraq’s recent efforts on behalf of the Arabs in Palestine would probably result in a solution acceptable to the Arabs in the immediate future.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21184, 3 November 1938, Page 11
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