PALESTINE DISORDERS.

Wairarapa Age, 27 August 1930, Page 5

PALESTINE DISORDERS.

REPORT OF THE MANDATES COMMISSION. LONG BRITISH REPLY. (Received Tuesday, 9.20 p.m.) LONDON, August 25. The report of the. Mandates Commission on the Palestine disorders expresses the opinion that they cannot be regarded as a sudden explosion of popular passion. Although the Arab (attack directed against the Jews caused resentment, the trouble was really due to political disappointments, attributable to the patties of the Mandate, primarily Britain. The report criticises the inadequacy of intelligence service, also of the armed .forces, and concludes that the execution of the Mandate has not given satisfaction either to impatient advocates of the Jewish national horde or to Arab extremists, who were ( alarmed at the influx of non-Arab immigrants. A long British, reply to the criticism expresses gratification that the Governement had been acquitted of failure of its obligations or immediate duties in relation to the regime of self-government, but expresses the opinion that the Commission’s findings are inconsistent wjth the previous yearly approvals of Britain’s administration. It points out that the Arab claims were always incompatible with the execution of the Mandate and always rejected Britain’s offer to associate Arabs and Jews in a representative Government; It is most sur prising that the Commission does not mention Britain’s obligation to safeguard the civil and religious rights of all the inhabitants, which is the crux of the whole problem. The Commission accepted exparto statements while ignoring the judgments of the Shaw Commission, notably that the outbreak was agaist British authority. It was against the mandate and the action of the League and British authority was only implicated as the mechanism of the Mandate Commission, which in the opinion of Britain failed in important respects to carry cut the mandate and appears to have accepted the more extreme Jewish contentions. Further, it is not within the mandatory powers but it is the Jewish Agency’s task to establish a Jewish national home.