Arab leaders met in Jaffa yesterday to discuss launching a $250,000 campaign for funds to fight the British and the Jews, and considered widening the anti-Jewish boycott.
The Arab Supreme Committee took up the future of the Jaffa port which, Arab leaders hold, is menaced by the development of a new harbor at neighboring Tel Aviv. It also considered the advisability of the merging of Arab villages near Tel Aviv with the city.
Arab notables have rejected an invitation of the Palestine Government to testify before the British Royal Commission of inquiry, according to Falastin, Christian Arab daily, in line with the Arab Supreme Committee’s boycott of the investigation.
The same paper reported that the British Colonial Office has allocate $15,000 to build a village for Arabs dispossessed when army engineers razed a part of the Old City quarter of Jaffa to build roads.
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