The king of the Jews has arrived here with the intention of capturing Jerusalem, the reference apparently being to Dr. Weizmann’s arrival in Palestine. This is the kind of agitation that has been started now in many of the Arab villages, backed up by invented stories of Arab children being kidnapped by Jews. The Arab organ “Al Ikdam” reports that efforts are being made to induce the Arabs from the villages to march into Jerusalem.
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