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ABUSES
Why There's Trouble
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HOLY
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HEN, Joshun led the children, of Israel into Palestine some 3.200 years ago he found most of the land occupi-
ed by rather easy-going and fairly prosperous people called Cannanites, Naturally they didn't care to give up their fields and homes, so opposed the in- vaders. And Joshua had to kill them, which, according to the Bible, he did with a right good will.
A similar situation now exists in Palestine.. The Jews have come back and again find the
and occupied.
This time the Canaanites are Arabs, a Semitic race closely
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FACTS
Britain
Balfour Declaration. favoured the establishment of Palentine as national home for Jews, but recognised rights of non-Jewish communitiva,
1923:
Paglestine became League of
•Nations Mandated Territory, administered by Great Britain.
Estimated population: 760,000 Moslems, 307,000 Jews, 100,000 Christians,
COMMENT
"The Government is committeil - by
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related to the Jows. They, like-bligation of honour which it cannot possibly set aside to promote, controlled Jewish emigra- wise, resent the encroachment
Ferusalem of the Bible puis concrete of the Went. By
lamp-post tragic palicemu.
The
BD-5050 Everybody's doing it-Fox Trot... Darktown Strutters.
I never knew-Fax Trat These foolish things-Fox Trot
The touch of your lips-Fox
of foreigners and are fighting tion to. Palestine.” Roy Fox & His Orchestra. Support for the stand which back.
we took on Tuesday in regard to Indian Love Call-Fox Trot Roy Fox & His Orchestra. local gambling in Philippines cold blood about
In 1929 they massacred
hundred Rose Marie-Fox Trot
Roy Fox & His Orchestra.
gold-mining stocks was forth-Jews. Now they have killed Let's face the music and dance-Fox Trot
score, set fire to crops, Roy Fox & His Orchestra, coming yesterday in the stric-9 a
destroyed auto-buses, looted But where are you-Fox Trot Roy Fox & His Orchestra.tures which a Wah-hoo-Fox Wah-had- Fox Trot Tror Roy Fox & His Orchestra vitios in connection with this NOTES OF THE DAY without ceing that this is all the industry, they own about sional flocks.
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Jewish shops and are carrying an a crusade of terror.
It is not a local quarrel, but the putting into action of deep seated and long-existing enmity that fills the Arab world. “A careful observer cannot live here
an irrepressible conflict.
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infested lagoons which barely Without any political power they supporteil a dezen wretched have brought Palestine more Bedouins, now offer gustenance prosperity than it has enjoyed at to hundreds of settlers and well- any time since the Romans fed, enlightened children play correspondent
dominated the land. They large- in parks that yesterday were
wastes ly control the two harbours.
"through" which passed on Ice House Street acti-
be- They have created and control draggled shepherd drove geca-
type of security. The revela-
half the orangé groves, own And all this remarkable trans- And so to bed-Fox Trot
tions made by "Hopeful," Laken The time has not yet arrived
most of the one, broad fertile formation, is the work not of n Jack Jackson & His Orchestra. together with other information when women can be employed in
HE Jews form 27 per valley in the country, have in- state but of heroic, determined You have that extra something-Fox Trot
Jack Jackson & His Orchestra subject, certainly suggest the de- the State or with profit to wo which we have received on the either the Diplomatic or the Con-
cent. of the population stalled most of the existing and very hard-working pioneers. sular Service "with advantage to
of Palestine and most power and light plants, dug most This is a commonwealth of I'm nuts about screwy music--Fox Trot
Boys and girls have of them are newcomers, of the many new wells, intro- toil. sirability of the institution of men." That was the decision re-
machinery anci new gathered here from #1 dozen The Ballyhooligans. reforms in the local share mar-cently arrived at by the British Moreover, their number is rapid- duced I got Rhythm-Fox Trot
The Ballyhooligans. ket. One aspect of the matter Government as the result of any increasing. Since the advent methods, built the establishment lands, donned sleeveless shirts investigation undertaken by an of Hitler's regime in Germany for extracting various valuable and scanty shorts and set to Goodbye Medley-Fox Trat The Ballyhooligans. which is deserving of emphasis inter - Departmental committee. they have been arriving here at salts from the Dead Sea, and put work. They are Socialists, Com- Oriontal Medley-Fox Trot
new public munists, Liberals; Conservatives,, The Ballyhooligans. is that the Philippines mining This came as a disappointment to the rate of about 4,000 a month. p, most of the
people-that is, the
but all Nationalists. They come manage many people who had hoped that
The present disorders and the buildings. the sex barrier would soon be re-
protest strike which the Arabs
with many theories, many tradi- · ments of reputable concerns-moved from every field of human
are carrying on are not spon-
HEY have brought a tions and no common language, are much perturbed at the ex- endeavour; it was in deference to
new spirit to Palestine but they have ope common aim, and made this in reality namely,, to make, Palestine a skirmishes stocks has grown on the Hong was formed to consider the de- of dispossessed peasants but in a great conflict
a promised land. This good place for Jews to live in. Chater Road.
sirability of admitting women to
They sing, hope, plan, suffer, kong market. They fear that the Diplomatic and Consular Ser-between two growing nation has become the world's newest
aliems.
country, a home of pioneers and and work. They are pioneers their good name may easily bevices.
For the Jews it must be said of striking achievements, building a new world as they ****** | jeopardiseil should the stocks of In explaining their position in
Countless nutomobiles and did in America, Africa, Austra- small prospecting concerns be the matter the Government-de- that as yet their weapons are
clared that they fully recognised not violence. They work with auto-buses rush over excellent la
These are sunburnt youths come counters for local speculathe value of the work done by other methods: schools, a first- roads, enginea chug night and tion. We find ourselves in agree women in the Home Civil Services, class university, factories, model day, drawing water from the with open faces, high foreheads. ment with our correspondent but the two services under disfarms and orchards, power and ground and sending it through hard muscles, strong wills. They wastes turned into when he contends that specula-blems with which women would wells, tractors and sport.
systems, new gardens and orchards; new have scen cussion presented peculiar pro-light plants, water
suburbs and whole new cities gardens, cities spring up in the tion cannot be entirely wiped not be competent to deal. In They are transforming Pales appear in sandy wastes, prosper- sand, waler gush from rocks TD. out; it is inherent in share and many countries a woman Diplomat tine. They have brought about ous villages fill valleys that were and light come from turbines, commodity transactions. But if would not be welcomed, and she greater changes within fifteen recently desolate, vineyards and they know it is their
would be plaged under a dis-years than had been effected climb over cocky hillsides achievement. it cannot be eliminated, it can at advantage. Various problems before in twa millenniums. swamps become gardens, fever-
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Jenst he regulated and control-would also arise if women were led. And that seems the prime retained in the Diplomatic Service mecessity in regard to local after marriage. In regard to Con-
salar posts, officers must fre operations in these Philippines quently deal with a number of stocks. There is reason to be-matters, which it would not bo lieve that by far the greater bulk easy for the average woman to handle, and a WOMAN Consular of Hongkong dealings in. these Oflicer would in practice find her counters is conducted on a for- self so hemipered and restricted ward basis, which is in striking that it would be difficult for her to carry out Consular duties contrast to conditions in Manila, abroad. From the point of view where, we are informed, only of increasing the number of open-. cash business is accepted. More-ings for women, there is little ad over, it is, staled to be possible antage to be gained by giving them opportunities 10 become to gamble on the Hongkong either Diplomats Consular market without putting up any Officers, as the number of avali- margin whatever, and, in orderable posts is only about 550 in the two services. Of the two minor- to avoid cash payments, buyersity reports presented-and reject- often pay as much as fifty per ed by the Government-one pro- cent. premium on forward deals, posed a seven years trial period In this connection, it is illumin and the other advocated eligibility
on equal terms for both sexem ating to read the allegation that Ice House Street has created its own special market in these the situation locally, not only in stocks, and that the quotations respect to local securities also, is regard to mining stocks but in often differ materially from
most unhealthy. Reforms which Manila prices. One of the dan- immediately suggest themselves gers of the situation undoubted-as being desirable include strict ly lies in the reactions which adherence to the rule requiring would be felt locally should all share contracts to bear scrip numbers, the reporting of all rates decline in Manila. As
business to the exchanges, in- Hongkong is a much narrow-aistence on margins, and daily er market, the effects of such a (reports of the volume of busi- development, would be more ness transacted. In their own sharply felt here, carrying with interests, no less than those of it the prospect of heavy losses changes aliould without delay
the general public, the through forced sales. From take adequate steps to deal with whatever angle the matter is what is unquestionably a most viewed, it must be conceded that unhealthy state of affairs.
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Can anyone believe at such settlers intend to leave their homes and gardens to the mercy of ignorant, backward Arabs?
their fatherland. Thore can be no doubt about that.
SIDE GLANCES By George Clark They plan to make Palestine
"You kids 'must learn to pay some alfention to your father when he speaks to you."
They are giving their life to that task and will not lightly turn back! For twenty cen- turies they have belin marching through wildernesses of want and suffering to these gardens and they will not give them up. They hope soon to have million Jews in Palestine.
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UT the Arabs are equally determined in their opposition. They also feel the pride of race and place. Within their youth, too, burns the fierce fire of nationalism. The sun and sands of boundless deserts, flaming through millenniums, have made fanaticism their fore- most trait.
Five daily calls to prayer; echoing sharp and imperious from a myriad minurets in- Iran, Syria, Egypt and along the African shores stir them, to... action in defence of their holy land. And most Christian Arabs mingle their prayers and vows with those of their Moslem brothers. Youth,, women, and old mon-wearers of fez and flowing, cord-bound turbans, Bedouins, fellsheen and feudal lords all unite in opposing the invading Jew. And they will express their opposition with force with ever-growing force.
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