Deploring the fact that he had not seen the city before the riots, Sir John Chancellor, High Commissioner of Palestine, when he arrived in Safed today on his visit of the Northern part of the country, declared himself gratified that the newly appointed municipality was working smoothly under the sub-chairmanship of the British district officer.
Sheiks from the Rosh Pinah district joined in the reception the Jews tendered to Sir John and said that they had not heeded the agitation but continued to live harmoniously with their Jewish neighbors as they had done for 45 years.
At Tiberias, the High Commissioner praised the Jews and Arabs for averting disturbances. In inaugurating a government school building, Sir John said that it is “shameful that this is the first building of its kind here since the British administration and that it was paid for from hot springs revenue and not the government treasury.”
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