Rashid Ali el Gailani, who led the pro-Nazi revolt in Iraq in 1941, has been granted Saudi Arabian citizenship and will be named councillor of the Arabian legation in Cairo, it is reported today brom Beirut.
The report says that Ibn Saud wanted to send Gailani to Palestine as his special envoy to the Arab Higher Committee, but the British refused him permission to enter the country.
The Arab press reports that the district commissioner at Gaza has warned the commander of the local detachment of the Najada, so-called Arab army, against further military maneuvers. Najada units have been conducting public military drills in the Gaza area for several weeks.
Syrian authorities announced in Beirut that they had uncovered a huge smuggling ring which had slipped Jews across the Palestine border for $65 a head. The smugglers were Bedouina, the announcement said.
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