New clashes between Jewish and Arab “hotheads” are expected here as a result of a movement throughout the country to organize Jewish youths into volunteer corps, with a view to prevent the huge Arab illegal immigration. This move is seen as a counter action to the Arab secret service recently organized to watch the coast and frontiers and to hand over to the police authorities Jewish immigrants found entering the country without visas.
Jewish sportsmen and athletes of all ranks, without distinction of party feeling, have been urged to join the Jewish service which is to watch the borders of the country it is reported. Volunteers are required to know Arabic.
The Hebrew newspapers here score the measure as likely to lead to provocation and undesirable results. Nevertheless, they believe that no other alternative is possible, pointing out that the government alone can avert this Jewish move if it eliminated the main source of the trouble, the Arab volunteers.
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