When the Arab delegation to London arrives, the British government should invite accredited Jewish and Arab leaders to attend a general conference under the government’s auspices for the purpose of attempting to reach an amicable understanding of the outstanding differences, declared Maurice Marcus, Labor member of Parliament, yesterday in the House of Commons. Undersecretary for the Colonies Drummond Shiels promised to keep the suggestion in mind, but he was unable to say whether circumstances would admit of its adoption.
Shiels further stated in replying to Marcus, who is a well-known Jewish leader, that no portion of the costs of the Palestine civil administration had been defrayed by the British Exchequer, apart from charges with respect to the British gendarmerie under orders of the Palestine government. The Palestine government, he said, is paying the excess cost of the maintenance of British forces in Palestine and Transjordania over the cost of such forces if stationed in Great Britain.
Replying to a further question of Marcus whether the British government had approved the recent ordinance of the Palestine government reducing to a minimum the compensation claims of the riot victims, Shiels said that the matter does not require the British government’s approval, but that correspondence on the subject with the High Commissioner is continuing.
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