1936-11-23 — Page 18

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The

REVOLT and

RECKONING

VEN amidst six months of murder, arson,

pillage

and strike the wits of Palestine have continued to be, busily inventive. They tell of the Jew arrested by an Arab policeman and charged with spreading false rumours in a time of civil war.

The evidence was that the Jew was heard to use the word fellow Shalom in greeting Jew. Shalom is the Hebrew for "peace." And they say that out of every three Arab casual- ties, during the past half-year, two died of Iaughing at the Palestine Government.

The humour is a trifle grim, but It reflects sharply the present mood of the people of Palentino Stubbs Rd. where, on all sides, there is bitter- ness, disillusion and frank con- tempt for authority.

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1930.

LEAGUE, ASSEMBLY

WORK

With so many big internation- al issues occupying attention, the recent, session of the Assembly of the League of Nations did. not command the worldwide notice thai

it might otherwise have dlone, although its deliberations were a matter of concern, if not of anxiety, during the three, weeks over which the sittings were spread. Newspaper cor respondents and observers who followed the proceedings closely gave a bewildering variety of opinion at the close of the session regarding the value of To the work. accomplished.

some, It appeared the dullest meeting on record though "all" might conceivably mean that the delegates had been able to settle down to the normal work of an Assembly without unpleasant distractions in the international form of fresh

This is the atmosphere which the Royal Commission to investigate disorders and grievances in the land rendered unholy by strife will find when it begins its unenviable task next month.

Its essential work, no matter in wint pontifical oficial formule it may be disguised, will be to change that atmosphere, and there are.few men In Palestine, Jew or Arab. who have any confidence that it can or will succeed.

The Arabs have openly fouted the British Government and its administration in Palestine in an avowed deflance to achieve definitely proclaimed political ob- of the abrogation Jects-the British mandate, the destruction of the Jewish National Home and the setting up of

Arab "National" Government.

Their leaders incited their one million fellow-Arabs to plunge the country into economic chaos by a

an

strike" designed to paralyse the free passage of food and mer- chandise.

They proclaimed a campaign of violence and murder diresied against a section of the civilian population, sparing neither mea. women nor children, and they im- ported a Syrian soldier of fortune, one Fawzi Kawakji, to organise terrorism under the banner of Nationalism.

They succeeded only in ono thing in inducing-the--British- Government to believe that it re- quired an army of 20,000 soldiers with all the accoutrements of war, to contend with a petty Byrian mercenary who issued bambusti- cally doftant "war communiqués from "headquarters," some mud- bullt village or a cave in the hill country of Northern Palestine,

There is an Arab village in this

by A. L. Easterman

"Daily. Herald" Special Correspondent in Palestine).

aren called Anepta which has been a thorn in the side of the Palestine Government."

Ita men harassed military and civilians for six long months; they shot at convoys, military patrols and civilian, vehicles; they killed and wounded; they dynamited roads and bridges. I motored through Anepta, much to the em- barrassment of my chauffeur, the day after the "strike" was called off and saw the villagers who had Just-returned -from-the-hills_be- hind whose boulders they had taken murderous alm at passers- by on the roads beneath.

A more sinister-looking gang, murder written large on their facés, could not be imagined.

Anepta," they have been saying in Palestine, has declared war on the British Empire "-a con- temptuous comment on Britain's

Inability to quell the gunmen gangs who have held Palestine at bay for six months and made life and property as insecure as in the wild country of Balkan bandits.

the

This is not to minimise importance of the Arab campaign but to put its methods in the pro- per setting. The campaign has achieved nothing except to im- the plant in the Arab leaders conviction that they can; when they are 30 minded, defy the show British Government by a of force.

Otherwise, they have achieved nothing.

Yot a sum estimated at not less than £250,000 has been extracted from the Arab people to pursue

AMATEUR ACTING

Fourth Article

IN order to reproduce different types of walks, you must study, care- fully the characteristic movements of people as they are walking; but pick the objects of this study care- fully, for if you dog the footsteps of a complete stranger in the streets you may be arrested as a suspicious character.

Words in Season

to the Beginner

By GERALD FAY

get in the way of other people on the stage. If you go to a fancy-dress ball on the last night of the show, leave your sword in the dressing room!

WHEN FENCING

fawzi Kawakji, the man behind the campaign of via lence and murder that led to such scenes as that of Jaffa illustrated on

the left.

the campaign: merchants have been intimidated to produce large sums and Arab officials in the Government have been forced under threats to pay over ten per cent. of their salaries to the Arab Higher Committee. The fact is that the mass of the Arab people have little interest In Nationalist nostrums, but they are casy meat" for agitators.

of

There is bliterness among thic Jews of Palestine. They accus: the Palestine Government having permitted violence to run

long unnecessarily

course. in which Jewish We and pro-

ala

perty have been sacrificed to a policy of vacilation and inexplic- able ineptitude.

They point to the sinister fart that some 75 "Jews have been-mur- dered in six months, and that not one single murderer has paid the penalty. Cynics are fond of de- claring that, judging by official statistics, Palestine

been has more free of crime this year than for any previous year in the his- tory of the British Administr tion

Whereas, they say, there has been previously an average of six death sentences for murder anna- ally; this year there has not been onc! Ecores of thousands of pounds worth of trees, laboriously

and planted

carefully tended. have been uprooted, yet no vandals have been brought to book.

Enormous damage has been donc to

to fruit plantations. workers' agricultural settlements, to transport, yet there has been next to nothing in the way of redress.

The Jews, with many others,

more." we.

crises. Never, declared others, could they remember a time

been when Geneva had saturated with pessimism and doubt about the future. Equally clear-sighted observers, on the other hand, detected a spirit of optimism after the first few days, when the question of Ethiopia's right to sit in the Assembly had been settled. It was significant that the problem of Italy's return to Geneva, which the British and French delegations were entirely con- cerned with at the start, soon dropped right out of the picture, The discussions on the reform of the League (or, more accurately,

When using a sword, you must never light in reality, but only give the "application" of the Cove-

the impression of combat. Stand nant) proceeded in the absence

with your right foot pointed straight maintain that the terror could of that Great Power. Though liere are a few bints on the simpler given by a stinking, crabilike walk at your opponent and your left at have been stopped within one

types of walk. A young person certain members stressed the walks more on the ball of the foot the feet only barely lifted from the right-angles to it, about eighteen month had the Palestine Govern- than on the heel, putting the heel floor, the body turned a shade to Inches behind. Bend the knees, and meat been willing and energetic

Onec importance of universality, a

down firmly at the end of the step, wards the audience, and the head keep them bent, except in thrusting, enough to do so.

the Jewish people, in hurried when the left leg should be stiffened say half-turned frequently clause on this aspect of the

to the move- thus giving lightness

it should be brought back to its have been led to the sacriace- original position when the stroke is and, of all places, in the boly land problem was deliberately drop-ments and a springiness to the walic, glances over the shoulder.

finished. The forearm and wrist

wrist of Israel.” ped from the resolution setting The shoulders are held well back,

the legs firmly braced,

and the steps IN PERIOD PLAYS BE

The Arabs, then, remain embit- In zaodern plays, the movements should look like a swan's neck-the up the appropriate committee of fairly long. Decisiveness is the main investigation. When the As- characteristic of a young walk, but need anly be slight modifications of hand being the head. The palm of tered by a sense of failure, the the the right hand must be held down- Jews by a sense of victimisation. wards; the left hand should, in rapier The Arabs distrust the capacity of sembly Committee settled down if overdone it will only give the those normally used, but in

"period" play, a completely new

fighting, be held "as if someone with to their spadework, chief in-effect of officiousness or great haste.

an technique must be acquired. If you have to play the part of

were saying "hands up" to the Royal Commission to grant terest centred in the economic old person, you must nvold your own Remember that the walk must be a gun

'demands” which are tie and financial situation.

The walk (though many people walk on artificial and affected. It is no use you, but the fingers should be bent a hose

sabre fighting, the left price of peace, the Jews fear that or hockey full little. In League had some reason to be

the stage as if they had the problems walking, like a football vince that hand must be kent behind the back. they will be made the victims of of the world on their shoulders and back and hoping taking part duel and an unexpected sight one violence.

Remember the difference between a proud that the recent recom-

were looking for the solution on the audience that you are mendations of its Economic

The legs of an old Поог.)

the church parade on an eighteenth person Committee had foreshadowed are much less firmly braced, the century Sunday morning. The male cool and organised, the other wild

apparently spontaneous. the joint action taken by the knees relaxed and slightly trembling. walk was much more studied and and French, British and American The heel goes down first, and the graceful; the female step was shorter, bo decided on by the producer, and

Hitle, in order to Governments to deal with the body, is slightly bent. Many old the hips swaying

be done quickly and safely. Never currency problem, as a prelude people hold one hand advanced as prevent the dress from hanging life-practised by numbers until they can

groping for support, and a limp lessly.

in A woman

stand so near to your opponent that! crinoline, or any to removing unwanted barriers helps to give the effect of difficulty to trade. The Assembly provid-in getting about. If a stick is used, wide dress, can't hold her hands by it is possible for the point of your ed a useful and timely opporuke it a little,

should lean heavily on it, and her sides, but must bend her arms at weapon to reach his face..

the elbows, and dispose of the hands

FACIAL EXPRESSION tunity for continuing the good work thus started. No more

The steps of a drunken man are by playing with s

front or clasping of her body, or loosely in the very irregular and unsteady,

them

In facial expression, the first es than a modest beginning has legs tending to cross, The body holding them up in horror or sup-sential is to avoid grimacing. Under been made, but it is possible that aways and the sense of balance is plication at the slightest excuse. For stress of strong emotion, people do this year's Assembly will be re- very poor, Country people of both men, the sword-hilt is a useful rest- usc

excuse for sexes walk with longer steps, and, ing place for the left hand (never the normally, but that is membered as the occasion when the nations again began to tread dwellers.

with legs wider apart than town- right unless a night is expected.) It actors screwing up their features into

A good impression of n is essential to hold a long sword so shapes never seen in man or beast,

(Continued on Pape 5.) the path to economic sanity, shifty, dishonest character can be that it will not trip up the wearer.

to

In

or

The actual strokes of a fight must

the face muscles more than

"concessions to the threat of

The Commission has a tough tank, not been made easier by the curious policy of the Palestine Government, which has allowed

organisation intact and ́ ́their the terror gangs to maintain their weapons safe in their mountain lairs, as the price of a temporary and doubtful pesce.

-To-day's Thought...---

· IGNORANCE iz soarer truth

than is prejudice.

-DIDEROT.