Advice to the Arabs not to march in the contemplated demonstration against the immigration of Jews into Palestine, scheduled for tomorrow in Jaffa, was given by the High Commissioner, Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope, according to an official communique issued on the interview between the high commissioner and the new members of the Arab Executive, yesterday.
The high commissioner suggested to the Arab leaders that they meet in a mosque and that they send the leaders of the demonstration to the Commissioner for the Southern District, Robert E. H. Crosbie, who would in turn transmit the protest to him. Thus a conflict with the police would be avoided.
The chief executive of Palestine replied to the recital of Arab grievances, pointing out that legal immigration into Palestine was regulated by the absorptive capacities of the country.
At the same time the Chief Secretary for Palestine, John H. Hall, assured Isaac Ben Zvi, member of the executive of the Vaad Leumi, the Jewish national council, that peace would be maintained and that alarm was unnecessary.
The demonstration, scheduled as a protest against continued Jewish immigration into Palestine and the sale of land to Jews, is discouraged by older Arabs, but is enthusiastically supported by the Arab youth, following the insistence of the Arab Executive.
The bulk of the boatmen, who were expected to support the demonstration are unwilling to strike, refusing to give up profitable work in order to indulge in politics. Nevertheless, under strong persuasion, their participation is most likely. In the meantime the Arab leaders are deliberately spreading rumors that the demonstration is partially allowed by the government.
Roy G. B. Spicer, Inspector-General of Police and Prisons, ranking officer of the Palestine police, arrived in Jaffa today and will remain there until after the demonstration.
The city of Tel Aviv is quiet and unperturbed and no trouble is anticipated there.
The secretary of the Arab Executive, Moghannam, informed the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, following an interview of the Arab Executive with the High Commissioner, Sir Arthur Grenfel Wauchope, that the high commissioner is determined to ban the demonstration and warned the Arab leader that the demonstration is against the law and is severely punishable. Nonetheless Moghannam declared the Arabs are proceeding with the demonstration.
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