Leading Arab newspapers announce today a seven-day strike to begin from the 10th of August as protest against the warning given to them yesterday by the Chief Secretary of the Palestine Government not to conduct any anti-Jewish agitation in connection with the sealed armouries in Palestine.
The warning in question was given to the Arab journalists in the form of an official communique which says that “any newspaper publishing, or any speaker uttering statements calculated to foster the belief that the existence of sealed armouries in the Jewish colonies is a menace to the Arab population will be regarded by the Palestine Government as deliberately and wantonly endangering public safety and will be dealt with accordingly.”
The publishers of the Arab papers here declare that this warning “deprives them of the possibility to perform their duty at a time when the Arab people are badly in need of the voice of the Arab press.”
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