The Moslem population in Syria has been greatly agitated as excitement spread with a report that “70 Arabs were killed at the Wailing Wall.”
Large numbers of Arabs are waiting at the Syrian-Palestine frontier in an attempt to enter Palestine to help
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their co-religionists. Trouble is feared in Damascus, where the Moslems are said to be arming. The French authorities prohibited the importation of the Moslem Arab newspaper “El Haram,” published in Cairo.
The “El Haram,” in describing the Friday events in Jerusalem, asserted that the Jews were the aggressors. It is characteristic that the story published in the Arab newspaper is identical in tone and interpretation with that transmitted by Vincent Shecan, correspondent of the New York “World” and the North American Newspaper Alliance.
The “El Haram” further reports that a secret meeting of the Moslem Arab leaders of all parties was held at Nablus, the Biblical Sechem, where a decision was adopted to demand the repeal of the Balfour Declaration, pledging the British government to facilitae the establishment in Palestine of the Jewish National Home. A delegation of these leaders gathered in front of the Government House in Nablus.
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