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Predict Renewal of Guerilla Warfare in Palestine by April 1

February 28, 1937
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The Associated Press reports from Jerusalem that Nationalist leaders predict Fawzi Bey Kaukaji, labeled Public Enemy No. 1 during the 1936 disorders, will return to Palestine as “commander-in-chief of the Arab army” and that guerilla warfare will be resumed within a few weeks.

Opinion is generally that rioting will break out again about April 1 with the end of the orange exporting season, the A.P. dispatch says. Both Arab and Hebrew newspapers point to the growing frequency of holdups, shootings, bombings and assassinations as indication of renewed Arab warfare against Great Britain and the Jewish national home.

Reports that Fawzi will be pardoned by the new Syrian Government and given a commission in the Syrian army are discounted by nationalist chieftains in Palestine, the report states.

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