PALESTINE QUIET

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 272, 17 November 1945, Page 5

PALESTINE QUIET

RIOTS SUBDUED

JEWISH PRESS PRAISES THE BRITISH Recd. 11 p.m. London, Nov. 16. The situation in Palestine is quiet. The recent riots at Tel Aviv have been quelled and the curfew has been lifted for nine hours to-day. Jewish newspapers praise the manner in which Britsh troops handled the situation in which they exorcised considerable restraint in very trying conditions. All the newspapers condemn the rioters. Jerusalem, Nov. 15? The street demonstrations were renewed in Tel Aviv this morning, when crowds again a 4 tacked Government property, states, British military headquarters. Crowds burned in the streets furniture which presumably came from light industries and buildings. Thousands of people milled through the streets. Many shops opened for business despite the curBritish troops again opened fire, one Jew being killed and 13 injured. Reinforcements of the 6th. British Airborne Division nad Tel Aviv almost under control bv 10 a.m. One person is reported to have been killed and two wounded when police fired on rioters in the Petach Tikvah district. It is stated officially that the casualties in Tel Aviv last night were two Jews killed, eight seriously injured, and three slightly injured,' and two soldiers and 14 police slightly injured. Mr. J. V. Shaw, temporary Administrator in Palestine, has issued a proclamation warning the population of Palestine that unruliness and attempts to disturb the peace will be punished with the utmost rigour of the law. The proclamation also gave a warning that the punishment for the possession of firearms was life imprisonment, and that the death sentence could be imposed for carryingor using firearms.

The municipality of Tel Aviv has condemned the disturbances and called on the people not to break the curfew. ’ The New Zionist Organisation has issued a statement that Mr. Bevin’s policy is not acceptable and represented only a perpetuation of a breach of Britain’s mandatory obligations. “Any policy which does not ensure the establishment of a Jewish State in all Palestine will he resisted to the utmost.” says the statement. “Jewish people,’ while the present British policy continues, will be free to pursue whatever means at their disposal for the achievement of their aim.” (Mr. Bevin pointed out that Britain undertook the establishment of a Jewish home in Palestine not to establish a Jewish State.)