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Inquiry Commission Members Set Sail for Palestine

October 16, 1929
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Sir Walter Shaw, chairman of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry which is to investigate the causes of the recent Arab outbreak in Palestine, and members of the Commission, R. Hopkin Morris, Liberal; Henry Snell, Laborite; and the secretary to the Commission, T. L. K. Lloyd, left on their way to Palestine. The other member of the commission, Sir Henry Betterton, Conservative, is proceeding overland.

A government communique issued this morning regarding the departure of the Commission members stated: “The chairman and members of the Commission of Inquiry, with the exception of Sir Henry Betterton, who is traveling overland, left this morning to embark on the S. S. Oronsay at Tilbury, for Palestine. Lieutenant-Colonel H. D. Satge represented the Secretary of State for the Colonies at their departure.”

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