Arabs to Be Consulted in Preparation of New Palestine Entry Schedule

The Palestine Government was understood today to be planning to introduce a policy of consulting the Arabs on Jewish immigration.

High Commissioner Sir Harold Alfred MacMichael, it was reported, will consult Arab as well as Jewish opinion before final approval of the forthcoming immigration schedule, which is now under preparation. The current schedule expires March 31.

Abraham Arwas, 30-year-old employe of the Jaffa District Office, was shot dead today inside the district offices at Ramleh. His Arab assailant escaped, firing at a Jewish car. Ramleh was put under curfew.

Joseph Gurion, an editor of the suspended Revisionist newspaper Hamashkif, was today sentenced by the administrative authorities to a term of six months in the Government concentration camp at Acre. He had been arrested early this month in a roundup of Revisionists following disturbances that greeted reports of the British plan to set up an independent Palestine state.

Expressing the hope that he would be overruled by the Appeals Court, British Magistrate Howard today sentenced 17 Jews who entered Palestine illegally last month to three month prison terms and deportation. All the accused pleaded guilty. One of them, Max Brickner, explained that he had escaped from a German prison. Another, A. Levi, said he was a German pilot in the World War and had escaped from Germany after the Gestapo had offered a 5,000-mark reward for him.

A group of 160 Jews who left Czecho-Slovakia shortly before occupation by German troops arrived at Tel Aviv yesterday as the first refugees from the former Republic to reach Palestine They include the famous poet, Max Brod; the journalist, Dr. Felix Weltsch, and a number of Zionist leaders.