DISORDERS, MARKED BY GUNFIRE, BROKE OUT IN NORTHERN TRANSJORDAN TODAY COINCIDENT WITH THE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT BY EMIR ABDULLAH, THE HAVAS NEWS AGENCY REPORTED. ADVICES SAID GUNFIRE HAD BEEN DIRECTED AGAINST THE PALACE OF THE GOVERNOR AT AJEILUN AND MILITARY POSTS AT KARAME AND BALFOUR. DETAILS WERE LACKING.
IN HIS OPENING SPEECH, THE EMIR DEPLORED THE SITUATION IN PALESTINE, STATING HIS GOVERNMENT WAS IN NO WAY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE TROUBLES IN THE HOLY LAND. AT THE SAME TIME HE EXPRESSED SATISFACTION OVER THE STRIDES MADE IN SEEKING UNITY AMONG ARABIAN PARTIES.
B.K. RAMDJANOUI, AN ALLEGED TERRORIST WANTED BY BRITISH AUTHORITIES IN PALESTINE, WAS ACQUITTED OF CHARGES HE HATCHED A PLOT AGAINST THE EMIR AND MEMBERS OF HIS GOVERNMENT, BUT WAS GIVEN A THREE-MONTH PRISON TERM FOR POSSESSION OF BOMBS AND DYNAMITE.
THE ACQUITTAL WAS DUE TO LACK OF SUFFICIENT PROOF REGARDING THE ALLEGED CONSPIRACY. A FINE OF THREE POUNDS (ABOUT $15) WAS COUPLED WITH THE PRISON TERM. AS SOON AS HE HAS SERVED THE SENTENCE, RAMDJANOUI WILL BE EXTRADITED TO PALESTINE.
(THE TEL AVIV HEBREW DAILY, HAARETZ, REPORTED FROM AMMAN THE SYRIAN FOREIGN LEGION WITH ITS PLANES HAD BEEN ORDERED TO GUARD THE SYRIAN-TRANSJORDAN FRONTIER, AND THAT THE TRANSJORDAN FRONTIER FORCE HAS BEEN SENT TO AKABA, RED SEA PORT, TO CHECK ON SUSPICIOUS TRIBAL MOVEMENTS AND ACTIVITIES OF SAUDI ARABIAN TROOPS.)
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