Pan-arab Congress Rejects Partition; Asks Treaty with Britain

RESOLUTIONS INCORPORATING ARAB EXTREMIST DEMANDS WERE ADOPTED AT THE CLOSING SESSION OF THE PAN-ARAB CONGRESS AT BLUDAN, SYRIA. THE CONFERENCE, ACCORDING TO REACTIONS HERE, ALTHOUGH SUMMONED TO LAY THE FOUNDATIONS OF PAN-ARABISM FAILED IN THIS BY RESTRICTING ITSELF TO PALESTINE AFFAIRS AND NOT EVEN DISCUSSING BROADER ARAB AIMS.

AMONG THE RESOLUTIONS WAS ONE THANKING FAWZI BEY EL KAUKAJI, SYRIAN TERRORIST LEADER, FOR HIS ACTIVITIES IN PALESTINE. (THE RESOLUTIONS, ACCORDING TO A NEW YORK TIMES JERUSALEM DISPATCH, CALL FOR (1) ABOLITION OF THE BALFOUR DECLARATION, (2) ABOLITION OF THE BRITISH MANDATE, (3) STOPPAGE OF JEWISH IMMIGRATION, (4) CONCLUSION OF A TREATY BETWEEN THE ARABS IN PALESTINE AND BRITAIN ALONG THE LINES OF THE ANGLO-IRAQ TREATY. THE ARAB POLITICIANS DECIDED TO “REFUSE THE SOLUTION OFFERED BY THE REPORT OF THE BRITISH ROYAL COMMISSION FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF THE PALESTINE PROBLEM.”)

DESPITE THE PROMINENCE GIVEN TO THE CONGRESS BY THE PALESTINE ARAB PRESS, IT RECEIVED LITTLE ATTENTION IN OTHER COUNTRIES. LEBANESE NEWSPAPERS EVEN WENT SO FAR AS TO WARN THE POPULATION TO PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MEETING.

MEANWHILE, ARAB TERRORISM IN PALESTINE CONTINUED. FOUR BRITISH CONSTABLES ENGAGED NINE MOUNTED ARABS NEAR SAFED, ARRESTING EIGHT OF THEM. THE NINTH OF THE ARMED BAND ESCAPED. ONE CONSTABLE SUFFERED A BROKEN ARM IN THE CLASH. A PUNITIVE POLICE STATION WAS ESTABLISHED IN THE FARAJ VILLAGE BECAUSE INHABITANTS ATTEMPTED TO RELEASE THE ARRESTED ARABS.

LIEUT.-GEN. JOHN G. DILL IS LEAVING TODAY FOR ENGLAND. HE WAS REPLACED AUG. 31 AS COMMANDER OF BRITISH FORCES IN PALESTINE BY MAJ.-GEN. ARCHIBALD P. WAVELL.

OF £30,000 (ABOUT $150,000) ASSIGNED BY THE GOVERNMENT FOR CLAIMS ARISING FROM LAST YEAR’S DISTURBANCES, £18,000 (ABOUT $90,000) HAS BEEN ALLOTTED TO JEWS, IT WAS ANNOUNCED.