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Tentative Budgets Drawn Up for Two Palestine States

October 11, 1937
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TENTATIVE BUDGETS FOR THE ARAB AND JEWISH STATES WHICH BRITAIN PROPOSES TO ESTABLISH IN PALESTINE HAVE BEEN WORKED OUT, IT WAS LEARNED TODAY. THE BUDGETS HAVE BEEN FORMULATED BY THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT OF THE PALESTINE GOVERNMENT FOR THE NEW BRITISH COMMISSION WHICH WILL come here to work out a CONCRETE PARTITION

PLAN, IT WAS ASCERTAINED. OTHER LEGAL AND STATISTICAL MATERIAL AND MAPS OF PALESTINE DRAFTED BY THE LAND SURVEY DEPARTMENT HAVE BEEN SENT TO LONDON FOR PRINTING.

SCATTERED DISTURBANCES WERE REPORTED OVER THE WEEK-END. A JEWISH SPECIAL POLICEMAN, JACOB BERNSTEIN, STATIONED NEAR THE TIBERIAS HOT SPRINGS, WAS FIRED ON AND WOUNDED IN THE ARM. FOUR SHOTS DISABLED AN AUTOMOBILE CARRYING A BRITISH ENGINEER AND HIS ASSISTANT.

A POLICE STATION AT MT. CANAAN, NEAR SAFED, WAS FIRED ON. POLICE RETURNED THE FIRE. NO CASUALTIES WERE REPORTED.

POLICE SEARCHED THE MUNICIPAL OFFICES OF JERUSALEM, FORCING OPEN THE ROOM AND DESK OF HUSSEINI KHALIDI, THE ARAB LEADER WHO WAS DEPOSED AS MAYOR AND ARRESTED IN A DRIVE ON ARAB AGITATORS. MANY DOCUMENTS WERE CONFISCATED.

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