JEWS STRIKE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 270, 15 November 1945, Page 5

JEWS STRIKE

FIRST REACTIONS TRANSPORT CEASES RABBI CALLS FOR PRAYER IN PALESTINE Recd. 11 p.m. London, Nov. 14. Jews in Palestine have begun a 12hour strike as a protest, against the announcement of British policy in Palestine. All transport has been brought to a standstill, and Jewish employees in electricity and other industrial undertakings have stopped work. The chief rabbi has called for a day of prayer in Palestine to-mor-row.

Senator Barkley is reported in Washington as saying that the U.S. Senate will pass a resolution to-day favouring an immigration rate of Jews into Palestine of 100,000. While no official statement has been made as to the specific objections the Jews have to the statement made oy Mr. Bevin, it is believed to centre on the immigration rate proposed. The Jews say that this is totally inadequate. The Council of the Arab League is meeting in Cairo to-day and some expression of opinion on Mr. Benin’s policy statement is expected to-day. The Arab Office, London, expressing disappointment with Mr. Bevin’s Palestine statement, said it meant the non-implementation of White Paper promises. It said it welcomed, however, the very clear distinctions which the British Government had made between the Jewish problem as a whole and the Palestine question, also the British and American Governments’ projected attempts to deal with tms Jewish problem as a human one and to solve it internationally. The Arab Office, welcomed both the British and American Governments’ clear adherence to the principle that nothing should be done in regard to Palestine without consultation with the Arabs.