A demonstration of protest against the attitude of the Palestine Government in the controversy between the Jews and Moslems of Palestine over the Jewish right of access to the Western Wall of the Temple, commonly known as the Wailing Wall, was held here this afternoon when the Jewish population observed the Fast Day, Tisha B’ab, commemorating the destruction of the Temple over 1,800 years ago.
Two thousand Jewish youths from Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and the surrounding Jewish colonies marched in solemn procession to the Wailing Wall carrying Zionist blue and white flags and making outcries against the Palestine Government and the Zionist Executive for their attitude in the controversy. The demonstrators took an oath at the Temple remnant “to sacrifice all for the Western Wall.”
The demonstrators, singing “Hatikvah,” demanded the dismissal of the British anti-Zionist officials in the Palestine administration and the restoration of the Western Wall as a Jewish Holy Site. A delegation representing the demonstrators called at the Government House where they were received by E. Mills, a government official, in the absence of the Acting High Commissioner, H. C. Luke. The delegation presented a set of resolutions for transmission to the British Colonial Office embodying their demands. The leaders of the demonstration, when advised by Mr. Mills to have confidence in the moderate attitude of the leading Jewish organizations in Palestine concerning the matter, declared that “the Jewish youth will not remain
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satisfied” with the compromise of the elders in the Wailing Wall question.
Feeling ran high in the city when the acuteness of the controversy over the Wailing Wall assumed added significance because of the Fast Day and the necessity for the government to provide strong detachments of mounted police to guard the Jewish worshippers at the Wall against feared attacks on the part of Moslems. No disturbances occurred.
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