The Colonial Office today issued a statement giving a brief, official version of developments in Palestine since the hold-up in Tulkarem on April 15 which precipitated the disorders in which, since Sunday, eighteen Jews and twelve Arabs are reported to have been killed.
The statement points out that it has not been necessary to employ troops against the crowds, but that the British High Commissioner, Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope, has ordered certain troop movements as a precautionary measure. Included in the statement are the full texts of the various official communiques issued by the Palestine Government since the outbreaks started.
The Tulkarem hold-up was perpetrated by Arabs who killed one Jew and wounded two others, one of whom later died. Two nights later, following funeral services for the first victim in Tel Aviv, two supposed Arabs were found dead at the colony of Neged, near Petach Tikvah. (It was disclosed yesterday that one of the “Arabs” was in reality an Egyptian Jew.) Mass attacks on Jews started Sunday when the report was circulated among Arabs that the Friday murders were “reprisals” by Jews.
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