ARABS WERE WARNED TODAY BY THE ILLEGAL "NEW ARAB SUPREME COMMITTEE," REPLACING THE BODY LIQUIDATED LAST MONTH BY THE AUTHORITIES, ON PAIN OF DEATH NOT TO COOPERATE WITH JEWS, BRITISH OR ARAB MODERATES.
THE THREAT, IT WAS UNDERSTOOD, CAUSED ARAB MEMBERS OF THE JERUSALEM MUNICIPAL COUNCIL TO DENY A REQUEST OF THE DISTRICT COMMISSIONER TO SIGN A JOINT APPEAL WITH THE JEWISH COUNCILLORS FOR PEACE. THE ARABS ISSUED A SEPARATE APPEAL INSTEAD.
A CHALUTZ (PIONEER WORKER) LABORING IN THE FIELDS OF TEL AMAL NEAR BEISAN WAS FIRED UPON AND WOUNDED TODAY.
BRITISH TROOPS CONTINUED MOPPING UP OPERATIONS IN NORTHERN PALESTINE, ENGAGING AN ARAB BAND OF FIFTY, KILLING ONE ARAB AND CAPTURING ANOTHER. THE TROOPS, TOTALLING 1,500, ARE AIDED BY ROYAL AIR FORCE PLANES, ARMORED CARS AND THE TRANSJORDAN FRONTIER FORCE.
THE HEBREW LABORITE DAILY, DAVAR, PUBLISHED IN TEL AVIV, WAS SUSPENDED AGAIN BY THE AUTHORITIES–THIS TIME FOR FIVE DAYS, REPORTEDLY IN CONNECTION WITH ITS ACCOUNT OF DISORDERS IN JERUSALEM SUNDAY.
TWENTY OF THE FIFTY-ODD ZIONIST-REVISIONISTS ARRESTED AFTER SUNDAY’S CLASHES WERE TRANSFERRED YESTERDAY TO THE ACRE CONCENTRATION CAMP, INCLUDING ERI JABOTINSKY, SON OF THE WORLD PRESIDENT OF THE NEW ZIONIST ORGANIZATION. OTHERS WERE TO BE RELEASED ON CONDITION THEY REPORT TO THE POLICE DAILY FOR THREE MONTHS.
VLADIMIR JABOTINSKY, WHO IS BARRED FROM ENTERING PALESTINE, DECLARED IN A STATEMENT RECEIVED HERE, THAT THE PURPOSE OF THE ARRESTS WAS TO DISCOURAGE THE TENDENCY OF THE JEWS TO HIT BACK AT ARAB TERRORISM.
WARNING THAT RETALIATION COULD NOT BE HALTED BY IMPRISONING JEWS, JABOTINSKY HELD THAT THE ARRESTS SUGGESTED THE GOVERNMENT HAD NO FIRM POLICY CALCULATED TO STAMP OUT BANDITRY BUT "INDULGED IN A GAME OF SETTLING ACCOUNTS WITH THE OPPOSITION."
FROM THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE REPRISALS, THE REVISIONIST LEADER ASSERTED, OFFICIAL SPOKESMEN OF THE JEWISH AGENCY AND A SOCIALIST PRESS ORGAN STATED REPEATEDLY AND PUBLICLY THAT THE PRACTICE OF HITTING BACK WAS "THE EXCLUSIVE MONOPOLY OF A CERTAIN ELEMENT ‘OUTSIDE THE AGENCY,’ AN ELEMENT AKIN TO THE BIRYONIM ELEMENT (BRITH HABIRYONIM, REVISIONIST SECRET ORGANIZATION) WHICH MUST BE EXTERMINATED."
"THE HINT WAS PERFECTLY CLEAR," JABOTINSKY DECLARED. "THE PRESENT HAUL OF REVISIONIST VICTIMS IS A RESULT OF DELIBERATE DENUNCIATION." HE DECLARED THE "DENUNCIATION" OF REVISIONISTS PROVED THE INTENTION TO START "A KIND OF CIVIL WAR IN JEWRY."
"I FEEL PERSONALLY PROUD THAT MY SON IS ALSO AMONG THE ARRESTED," HE CONCLUDED.
A DELEGATION REPRESENTING THE ARAB WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION WAS TO CALL ON ACTING HIGH COMMISSIONER WILLIAM D. BATTERSHILL TO PROTEST THE KILLING OF TWO ARAB WOMEN IN JERUSALEM SUNDAY.
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