Today is the anniversary of the outbreak in Jaffa of the 1936 Arab disorders which between April and October took a toll of more than 300 Jewish, British and Arab lives and did property damage estimated at over $15,000,000.
The entire Hebrew press devotes its leading articles to reviews of the outbreaks. Eulogizing the 102 Jewish victims (including 20 killed since official termination of the Arab general strike last October), the newspapers reiterate charges that the Palestine Government was responsible for the extent of the disorders, not having clare the Government failed to pacify the country and permitted the chief instigators to go unpunished.
Arab newspapers urged the day be proclaimed a Moslem national holiday.
Several kilograms of explosives and a quantity of rifles were found by police today during a search of Arab houses in Jaffa.
Jewish supernumeraries arrested five Arab shepherds found grazing flocks illegally on fields belonging to Tel Joseph, newly established colony in the Beisan area.
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