All leave for Palestine police during the Nebi Mussa Festival has been cancelled. The entire police force is to be mobilized from the 3rd to the 23rd of April, during which period all police will be on continuous duty and subject to orders at any moment during day and night.
The Palestine Government has informed the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that it has no reason to believe that the Nebi Mussa Festival this year will pass differently from last year.
The Nebi Mussa Festival, celebrated by Moslems in Palestine, has frequently coincided with outbreaks of fanaticism and blood-shed, resulting from the fanatical processions, the demonstrations, and the wild sword dances that accompany the pilgrimages from the towns and villages to Nebi Mussa, south of Jerusalem, believed by Moslems to be the tomb of Moses.
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