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THE HONGKONG TELE GRAPH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1936,

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VEŇ amidst six months of murder, arsen, pillage and strike the wits of Palestine have continued They to be busily Inventive. 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 a Jew. Shalomi is the Hebrew for "peace." And they say that out of every three Arab casual- tion during the past half-year, two died of laughing at the

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The bumour Is a trifle grim, but reftets sharply the present

mood of the peuple of Palestine Stubbs Rd. where, on all sides, there is bitter- ners, drillusion and frank con- tempt for authority.

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, Now мmu 23. 1936.

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With an many bir internation- 1 issues occupying attention. thr recent sission of the Assembly of the League of Nations

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command Che worldwide notire That it mistat otherwise have done, although its deliberations were a matter of concern, if not of anxiety during the three weeks over which the siltings were spread. Newspaper eor. respondents and observers who fallowed the proceedings closely Frases a bewildering variety of opinion at the close of the | session regarding the value of To the work accomplished.

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on record thong a "dull" might conceivably mean that the delegates had been able to settle down to the normal work of an Assembly without unpleasant distractions in the form of fresh international crises. Never, declared others, could they remember “a time,

Geneva had been so

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This is the atmo bere which the Royal Commission to investigate disorders and Relevances in the land rendered unholy by stelle will And when it bring its unenviable tak next month.

ILS essential work, no matter in what pontifical offelal formule 11 may be disguised, will be to change that atmosphere, and there are few men in Palestine, Jew or Ainb, who have any confidence that it can or will succeed.

The Arabs have openly flented the British Government and its administration It Palestine In an avowed deflance to achieve definitely proclaimed political ob-

abrogation of Jeets the British mandate, the destruction of the Jewish National Home and the setting up of tn Arab "National" Government.

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Their leaders need their one million fellow-Arabs to plunge the country into economic chaos hy n "strike" designed to paralyse the free passage of food and mer- chandise.

They proclaimed a campaign of violence and

murder directed against a section of the civilian population, sparing neither men,. women nor children, and they im- ported a Syrian soldier of fortune, one Fawz Kawakjl, to organise terrorism under the banner of Nationallam.

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They succeeded only in pho thing-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 Byrlan mercenary who issued bombast!- cally deflant "war communiqués " from headquarters," some mud- built 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 Anepla which ha been a thorn in the side of the Palestine Government.

Its men harassed military and , civilians for six long months: they ahot at convoys, military patrols and civilian vehicles; they killed and wounded: they dynamicd I motored roads and bridges. 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 a!m at passers- by on the roads beneath.

A more sinister-looking kang. their murder written large on faces, 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

gunmen to quell the ganga who have held Palestine nt bay for six months and made life and property as Insecure as in the wild country of Baikan Bandits:

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This is not to minimise the Importance of the Arab campaign but to put its methods in the pro- per setting. The campaign has, achieved nothing exerpt to Im- plant in the Arab leaders the conviction that they can, when they are so minded, defy the British Government by show of force.

Otherwise, they have achieved nothing.

Yet a sum estimated at not less than $290.000 has been extracted from the Arab people to pursue

AMATEUR ACTING

Fourthi Article

IN order to reproduce different typer Words in Season

to the Beginner

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.

By CERALD 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

types of walk A young person the feet only barely lifted from the right-angles to it, about eighteen

in hurried

Fawzi Kawakji, the man behind the campaign of vio lence and murder that led to such scenes as that at Jaffa illustrated on

the lell.

the campaign: merchants have been intimidated to produes large sums and Arab oficials in the bren forect! Government have

are. "cas:

under threats to pay over ten per cent, of their salarles to the Arab The fact is Higher Committee. that the mass of the Arab people have little interest in Nationalist nostrums, but, they meat" for agitators.

There is bitterness among th Jews of Palestine. They accurat bi the Palestine Government having permitted' violence to run #11 unnecessarily

course. long in which Jewish life and pro- perty have been sccrificed to a policy of vacillation and inexpile- able ineptitude.

They point to the sinister fact that some 5 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 has been more free of crime this year than for any previous year in the his- tory of the British Administra tion.

of

Whereas, they say, there has been previously an average of six death sentences for murder aanu- ally; this year there has not been one!

thousands Scores of pounds worth of trees, laboriously planted and carefully tended, have been uprooted, yet no vandals have been brought to book.

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

the

to

when saturated with pessimism and doubt about the future. qually 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 It Assembly had been settled. 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 redress never fight in reality, but only give

The Jews, with many others. 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 have been stopped within one of that Great Power. Though Here are a few hints on the simpler

given by a slinking, crabliks walk at your opponent and your left at month had the Palestine Govern- Icertain members stressed the

walks more on the ball of the foot door, the body turned a shade to-inches behind. Bend the knees, and ment been willing and energetic Once more." importance of universality, a than on the heel, putting the heel

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

people, when the left leg should be stiffened say lause on this aspect of the

it should be brought back to its have been led to the sacrifice- thus giving a lightness to the move half-turned frequently problem was deliberately drop. ments and springiness to the walk. Blantes over the shoulder.

original position when the stroke is and, of all places, in the holy land finished. The

wrist of Israel." forearm and ped from the resolution setting The shoulders are held well back, IN FEriod plays

the les firmly braced, and the steps up the appropriate committee of

In modern plays, the movements should look like a swan's neck-the fairly long. Decisiveness is the main investigation. When the As-

characteristic a young walk, but need only be slight modifications of hand being the head. The palm of

the the right hand must be held down it will only give the those normally used, but in sembly Committes settled down if overdone

"period" play, a completely new wards; the left hand should, in rapier fighting, be held "as if someone with to their spadework, chief in-effect of officiousness or great huste.

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

were saying "hands up" to terest centred in the economic

Remember that the walk must be gun old person, you must avoid your own and financial situation. The

the left sabre fighting, walk (though many people walk on artifelal and affected. It is no use you, but the fingers should be bent a League had some reason to be the stage as if they had the problems walking like a football or hockey full little, In

Remember the difference between a proud that the recent

of the world on their shoulders and bark and hoping to convince the hand must be kept behind the back they will be made the victims of mendations

were looking for the solution on the audience that you are taking part in of its Economic were

floor.) The legs of an old person the church parade on an eighteenth duel and an unexpected fight-one violence. Committee had foreshadowed

are much less firmly braced, the century Sunday morning. The male cool and organised, the other wild The actual strokes of a fight must the joint action taken by the knees relaxed and slightly trembling walk was much more studied and and apparently spontaneous,

The Commission has a tough French, British and American The heel ons dawn first, and the graceful; the female step was shorter, Governments to deal with the body is slightly bent. Many old the hins swaying a little, in order to be decided on by the producer, and task, not been made easier by the be done quickly and safely., Never curlour polley of the Palestine currency problem, as a prelude people hold one hand advanced as prevent the dress from hanging life-practised by numbers until they can

If groping for support, and a Hmplessly.

stand so near to your opponent that Government, which has allowed to removing unwanted barriers helps to give the effect of difficulty A woman in a crinoline, or any to trude.

intact and their organisation 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 the terror gangs to maintain their weapons safe in their mountain cd a useful and timely oppor-you should lean heavily on it; and her sides. but must bend her arme at weapon to reach his face.

shake it a Httle.

the elbows, and dispose of the hands FACIAL EXPRESSION tunity for continuing the good

lairs, as the price of a temporary clasping The steps of a drunken man are by playing with a fon, or work thus started. No more

In facial expression, the first es- and doubtful peace. very irregular and unsteady, the them loosely in front of her body. legs tending to cross. The body, holding them up in horror or supial is to avoid grimacing. Under been made, but it is possible that sways and the sense of balance is plication at the slightest excuse. For riress of strong emotion, people, do tuis year's Assembly will be re- very poor. Country people of both men, the sword-bilt is a useful rest- use the face muscles more than membered as the occasion when

sexes walk with longer steps, and ing place for the left hand (never the normally, but that is no excuse for with legs wider apart than town- right unless a floht is expected.) It actors screwing up their features Into the nations again began to tread

dwellers. A good Impression of itja exeentiel to hold a long sword so shapes never seen in man or beast.. the path to economic sanity. shifty, dishonest character can be that it will not trip up the wearer or:

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The Arabs, then, remain embit- tered by a sense of failure, the Jews by a sense of victimisation. The Arabs distrust the capacity of the Royal Commission to grant those demands which are the price of peace, the Jews fear that

concessions" to the threat of

-To-day's Thought- IGNORANCE is nearer truth

than is prejudice.

-DIDEROT.