THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 12, 1938.
MR. MALCOLM MACDONALD BROADCASTS APPEAL FOR PALESTINE GOODWILL
London, To-day.
"The British High Commissioner and the British -Military Commander in Palestine are facing a task as difficult as that which has confronted the British authorities in any country since the war, and their co-operation inspires con- fidence," declared Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, Secretary of State for the Colonies, in a broad- cast yesterday evening in which he described his recent visit to Palestine.
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Mr. MacDonald said that the Palestine, which was to have con- British Government would admin-sultations with the authorities on ister their trust on the basis of the spot regarding the present justice between the Jews who were situation in Palestine, with special building, at longlast their National reference to the problems of Home and the Arabs, whose title security. to the land of their birth was in- disputable...
"Sometimes man's powers of conciliation and creation appeared to be puny but there was a spirit that brooded over Palestine, and with God's help, "peace would be restored to the Holy Land." Reu- ter.
FURTHER INCIDENTS
Jerusalem, To-day.
He also saw Dr. Tammous, head of the Arab Centre in London for the same purpose.-British Wire- less.
LAND MINE EXPLOSIONS
London, To-day. The High Commissioner for Palestine in a telegram yesterday outlines the detail of the armed Arab raid on Barclay's Bank at A Jewish workman was kidnap-Nablus, forcing the manager at the ped by an armed Arab gang on the point of their guns to outskirts of Jerusalem, while two safe. They decamped by car with Jews were seriously injured in an
£5,020, (Palestine pounds) in cash. encounter with Arab bandits.
A post office servant was held up and robbed by an armed gang. -Reutér.
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