PALESTINE DISORDERS.

Wairarapa Age, 25 May 1936, Page 5

PALESTINE DISORDERS.

EMERGENCY MEASURES OF CONTROL. JERUSALEM PATROLLED & GUARDED. EMIR ABDULLAH DEPRECATES VIOLENCE. (Received Sunday, 6.30 p.m.) JERUSALEM, May 23. Following on the repulse yesterday of an Arab raid on a food convoy at Haifa, and the attempt to set fire to the Levant Fari, it is understood that emergency measures are being introduced to control all traffic. Seaforth highlanders are guarding the main points in the Holy City. Police wearing steel helmets are patrolling the streets. The Emir Abdullah rebuffed Arab overtures for his support. He deprecated violence and advised acceptance of a Boyal Commission. PROTECTION OF TRAFFIC. MANY SHOOTING AFFRAYS REPORTED. (Received Sunday, 7.30 p.m.) JERUSALEM, May 24. The authorities are tdghtentiag up their measures in dealing with Arab-Jewish tension. They have prohibited Arab strike leaders leaving the towns in which they reside and have interdicted a conference of Arab mayors at Ramallah. They have also prohibited motorists without permits using the roads—this in Order to prevent the terrorists carrying out motor raids, in consequence of which all road traffic at present is being convoyed by troops. Train services have been reduced and night trains have been cancelled. All trains carry a military escort.

Many shooting affrays are reported throughout the country. Incendiaries set fire to a police cricket pavilion at Nazareth.. A bomb was thrown into an open-air cinema, injuring two of the audience, at Haifa, where Arab boatment have struck. There are at present five thousand British troops in Palestine, including a tank corps.