(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The decision of the British government to demobilize the British gendarmerie in Palestine met with the dissatisfaction of the Hebrew press here.
The newspapers pointed out that the disbanding of the gendarmerie will endanger public security.
The Palestine police numbers only 1,000 and the Palestine gendarmerie only 500, for a population of 800,000, the papers say. In addition, the Palestine force helped to keep order in Transjordania.
The Hebrew papers further state that this is particularly dangerous in view of the increase in the number of crimes. They point out that the exclusion of Jews from the Palestine gendarmerie, which has now been converted into a frontier defense corps, is an insult to the Jewish people.
From an authoritative source, it was learned that during 1925, 19,701 crimes were committed in Palestine, as compared to 16,833 in 1924. Of the number in 1925, 596 were heinous crimes, including 98 murders. Thirty-six thousand, six hundred and forty-two persons were arrested, 18,400 of whom were convicted during 1925. During this period the police confiscated 292 rifles, 245 revolvers and pistols, 144 sporting guns, 71 bayonets and daggers. There are 13,726 persons in prison, including 28 serving a life sentence, 261 sentenced to from 5 to 15 years.
ANTI-JEWISH DISTURBANCES AGAINST JEWISH COLONIES OCCUR IN UKRAINIA, PARIS REPORTS ASSERT
Anti-Jewish disturbances took place recently in the district of Krivoy-Rog, Ukrainia, according to a report received by the “Jewish Morning Journal” from its correspondent in Paris.
The report says information received in Paris shows that the disturbances occurred on February 8. following the demand made to President Petrov-sky of the Ukrainian Soviets by a delegation of peasants that the two thousand desiating land which have been assigned for Jewish colonization in that district be given to the non-Jewish peasants. The peasants argued that there is a shortage of land among them and that many of them were forced to emigrate to distant parts of Russia, hence they objected to the plan of colonizing Jews. The refusal of President Petrovsky to grant the demand of the peasants caused the anti-Jewish unrests, according to the report.
The same report also asserts that “Dni,” Kerensky’s Russian paper in Paris, has published an attack on the Jewish colonization plan.
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