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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 3, 1941
CHURCHILL'S CALL AWAITED BY PALESTINE JEWS
(THE POSITION OF THE Jews in Palestine has become in- creasingly difficult as hostilities in the Near East threaten the pre- carious balance between Jewish and Arab racial groups. The fol- lowing article studies the situation from the Jewish viewpoint.)
Recent developments in Syria have brought home to the people of Palestine the fact that they are in serious danger of an Italo-German invasion.
As the drive against the Suez Canal is ap- proaching, the Jews hope to be permitted to organise a Jewish Army. Half a milion Jews are waiting in Palestine for the day when they may come to grips with the enemy of their race on equal terms.
An Axis invasion of Palestine may come overland, through Tur- key. The Germans may also use what is left of the Italian feet to force a landing in the Holy Land as a move to outflank Tur- kry A simultaneous attack on Gibraltar might divert, the British Mediterranean squadrons long enough to permit such an at tempt.
The Italian bases in the Dode- canese Islands are only an hour by fast warplane from the Pales- line coast. The country could be sufficiently "softened" by aerial attueks to prepare for its inva- vion,
Routes Of Possible Invasion
ligious
persecut'on. They built themselves homes in the land of i their fathers, wresting every inch of grain from the desert, the mar- shes, the stony hills of Juda, and in face of Arab enmity and ter- rorism. They are mostly able- bodied and courageous young peo- ple.
in five among Perhaps one them is a refugee from Nazi ter- ror. They are a hardy, daring colonfal pioneers, re- breed of
early American miniscent of the settlers.
These Jewish peasants have learned to plow the soil with one
the plow-handle hand on
and another on the rifle-trigger. Because of the constant menace of Arab raids they have also be- come expert in the traditional Arab craft of gun-running and munition hparding. The weapons which they are believed to have thus amassed would
before the present
compare
to the
WARDROBE GIVEN
WOMEN PRISONERS
can
Women released from California's pri- son for women face the world with considerable sartorial
assurance.
When an inmate's release date nears, the sewing room of 69 workers starts making her an outfit, indivi- dually tailored and fit- ted A serviceable suit, two dresses, pyjamas, robe, under- wear and aprons are included.
00000000.
"FORTUNES
OF WAR'
Two stories about two
The invasion of Palestine could also be undertaken from Syria. The "Weygand" army in Syria is favourably with those supplied brothers graphically illus-
war demobilised and its now largely effectives shipped to France. Only Arabs, b the agents of Germany trated the old phrase: between 40,000 and 80,000 French and Italy. On bolh sides the "The fortunes of war.' troops now remain in Syria. If Vichy still has the loyalty of the mandatory government, an at tack on the Holy Land from the north is quite possible.
The Jewa want their own army to defend their own land. The plan is apparently hang. ing fire, because Prime Minis- ter Churchill is mindful of its porcible repercussions In the Arab world. It is an unenviable decision to reach.
armament contains machine-guns, hand grenades, and even light artillery pieces, it is said.
The actual dimensions of both Arab and Jewish secret effec- tives may not be known until Invasion comes.
Then the armories, which are now buried deep in the fields and orange plantations. or hidden in the honeycombed mountains of the desolate countryside, will be opened.
The Arabs of Palestine, about
That the semi-military pre- a million of them, are by no means! paredness of the Jewish settlers is uniformly loyal to Britain's cause. considerable may be deduced from There are "fifth columnists" with- the size of their secret self-defence out number
among them. The organisation. The Haganah and hands of rebel fellaheen, who har-i the Irgun Zebai-Defence and ased the British army for years, Military Confederation respective- despite punitive expeditions with ly have around 100,000 inscribed tanks, howitzers. and aeroplanes, members. are neither pacific underneath the Furface, nor enthusiast'c about the English and Anzac troops.
"Holy War Of Islam”
and the
Military Exercises
When the Brtlish authorit'es opened the registration of civil defence volunteers, 136,000 Palestinian Jews offered their services within some 72 hours
In Rome, one brother, the Duke of Spoleto, became the new King of Croatia, carved out of con- quered Yugoslavia,
In the mountains
of Ethiopia, the other brother. the Duke of Aosta, Viceroy of Ethiopia, sur- rendered his army of 38,000 men to the British.
They are sons of a cousin of King Victor Emmanuel III.
FINDING OF HUGE
CRATER RECALLS
METEOR OF 1894
Discovery of a large crater near the base of southern Colorado's Sangre De Cristo Mountains has
of a revived memories
meteor which flashed across the sky 47
years ago.
an
The Grand Murti of Jeru-alem,
Dr. H. H. Minninger, Denver Haj Amin el Husseini, fed the
natural scientist, said after country during the fighting in
The new organisation gave them aeroplane trip over the crater-300 1937. with a British price on his
an opportunity of much-coveted feet wide and 30 feet deep--that head. To-day he is still touring military exercises. Until then the courts of the Arab princes they were obliged
it probably was gouged out by a to get these meteorite.
He plans a return trip tents of the Berlin!
secretly, along deserted beaches, with instruments for a scientific tribesmen and preaching a “Hely in darkened farm sheds, or in the War of Islam" against the British, barren hills of Judea and Galilee investigation. Old timers say the brilliant meteor's appearance "infidels." No one can tell how
Thousands of Jewish refugees nearly a half century ago was much he is succeeding, but the are still filtering through the
followed by a roar and British may have to nav heavily coastguard patrol into Palestine.
tremors. when the war shifts to the Near They land from Nazi-sponsored East.
"despair boats," which ply their
They
On the surface, Arab insur-pathetic course from Balkan and "I HAVE
MOVED" -WHERE?
earth
rection came to an end with the Iberian ports.
in come outbreak of the war. The worm-eaten little craft from almost tetal ban on Jewish im-neighbouring Greek and Turkish migration' and the restrictions islands. Many perish on route. against land purchases by Jews Others sink with their rotten ves- pacified the Arabs a good deal, sels almost in sight of the Pro- the London Government hope.mised Land, or jump into the sea, These legislative measures hurt trying to swim ashore, while their the Jews hadly. They need a ships are sneaking around the One Tampa draft registrant has haven for their war refugees coast to elude the British patrols. complied scrupulously with a re- But London has nothing to fear Yet many do reach land and quirement that he notify his local from them: their loyalty to the there they are put in concentra- board whenever he changed; ad- "Allled cartra le absolutė. Ir tion camps. When they are finally dress-except for one detail,
The Jewish Agency for Pales-released,"
times in the past two Four these strong, daring, tine is knocking on the doors of desperate men add further leaven months he mailed the Board cards doliticians In London and to the high fighting spirit of the saying "I have moved." - None of Washington demanding a Jewish community.
them gave an address. Army. Its spokesmen point out
·
that 50,000 first-rate men could
be speedily gathered and trained
Secrecy On Leaders'
Names
of producing ettel, ammunition. and small tanks for tho Britlah -Middle East. ⠀⠀ command. Their textile and electrical Industrica supply a great part of the army's needs. Their farms and plantations .feed; most of the between Libya and India.
in Palestine, while several times that number were ready to volun“ teer abroad. In two or three The leaders of the self-defence months the Agency could produce organisations are not known by a nuclear ormy. In two or three name even to their subordinates.
be British divisions bety tween 300 000 and 400,000 men of is the memory of the late Vladimir the highest possible anti-Nazi Jabotinaky, World War comman~ So for the British Government morale. The Jews would also be der of the Jewish Legion and has been yielding to their clamor- pronared to pay for the equip founder of the militant New ing very slowly. Some 8,000 Jews ment of their own army,
Zionist Organisation, Jabotinsky have been allowed to enlist in the passed on last year in New York. Britsh army. But they are not Like Colonial Pioneers while he was seeking to organise kept in a separate or distinct the recruiting of young American unit. They are distributed in The morale of Palestinian Jews Jews for the Jewish Army in various services in Egypt, Pales- has by now become proverbial. Palestine.
tine, Crete, and elsewhere. There More than 425,000 of them have]: * The Jowish war affort in [are only two small distinctly come into the Holy Land since Palosting is extremely high. The Jewish battalions in the Holy 1920——fugitives: from racial or res] young community already boasts | Land,
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