Following the action of Bedouins trespassing on Jewish National Fund lands in the Wady Havarith area, obstructing the Jewish ploughers and squatting down with their tents and belongings and women and children, the Government has requested the Jewish authorities to suspend ploughing, pending urgent action in the matter.
Dr. Arlossoroff, on behalf of the Jewish Agency, has agreed to do this, on condition that the land is vacated. Action by the Government is expected to be taken at any moment.
The Government action is in accordance with the method adopted several times by Sir John Chancellor, when similar trespassing on Jewish land occurred during his High Commissionership. There was one such case in Hederah, where Bedouins encamped on the Jewish land, and police officers arrived with orders from the High Commissioner to the effect that until the dispute regarding the land was decided by the law court, the lands which were uncultivated should be left uncultivated.
This was done also in Wady Havadith, and the complaint about an eviction of the Arab squatters was brought by the snaw Commission, which was then sitting.
Similar action was taken at Tel Hai, the Jewish colony where Trumpeldor and his comrades fell in defending it against Arab raiders.
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