The demand for British investigators, made at first by the Jews, is now seconded by the Arabs. The Moslem Supreme Council yesterday represented to Sir John Chancellor that all investigations will be illegal if based on evidence collected by Jewish investigators.
The Arabs are dissatisfied with the composition of the Commission of Inquiry, demanding an international commission and expressing no confidence in a commission composed of Britishers only.
A proposal to send an Arab delegation to London is being pushed energetically.
A telegram was despatched by the head of the Moslem Supreme Council in Beirut to the foreign ministers of Great Britain, France and other countries, declaring: “We deny emphatically the accusation which the High Commissioner of Palestine is endeavoring to attach to the Arabs of Palestine for the recent disorders. We support our Arab brethren in Palestine and demand a neutral inquiry commission.”
Proclamations were distributed in Damascus and other places in Syria, calling on Arabs to “help our Palestine brethren who suffered in the recent disorders.”
The Arab paper “Felestin” publishes a letter in behalf “of a section of Moslems and Christians,” urging a boycott of Jewish industry. “We shall sell our enemies anything they like except land, but we must not buy anything from them.” They propose that the boycott should extend to neighboring countries. Egypt, Syria and Transjordania, where “the Zionists are dumping goods.”
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