Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald reported to the House of Commons today that apart from the considerable number of Jews in the Transjordan Frontier Force and Palestine police, there are now 4,589 Jewish supernumerary police enrolled, a thousand of whom are mobilized, paid, armed and fully employed, while the others constitute a reserve.
The statement was made in reply to Geoffrey Mander, Liberal, who asked as to arrangements to arm Palestine Jews for self-protection. Mr. MacDonald said there were arms available for any emergency. He promised to inquire of High Commissioner Harold A. MacMichael whether any Jewish settlements remained outside the barbed-wire barricade being erected on the Syrian frontier.
Sir John Shuckburgh, Deputy Under-secretary of the Colonial Office, will head the British delegation before the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations, which opens its session in Geneva on June 9, it was announced today. Other members of the delegation will include Sidney Moody, Assistant Chief Secretary of the Palestine Government; A.S. Kirkbride, District Commissioner for the Galilee, who will represent Transjordan, where he was formerly Assistant British Resident, and J.M. Martin, who was secretary of the Peel Royal Commission on Palestine. It was reported from Jerusalem that Mr. Moody will leave for Geneva Sunday.
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