Concluding his fifteen hours on the witness stand before the Commission of Inquiry on the Arab riots, Major Saunders, acting police commandant at the time of the riots, stated that in the event of a massacre the Palestine police could not be counted upon inasmuch as they are for the most part Arabs.
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