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DELIVERY ARABS are waging a

of your 1939

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If you are going home on leave. this must interest you.

You can arranga to`stop`ashore at home and drive away in your own Vauxhalt.

campaign of terrorism throughout Palestine.

It is the old trouble of the administration of the Bri tish mandate over Palestine to provido a national home for the Jews while protect ing the interests of the native Arabs.

This time the trouble is gravér than ever before. In the unceasing flow of Jowish immi- gration into Palestine the Arab economic and national 5CC8 annihilation.

To emphasise the problem?

We assist you in this connection which confronts the British without any trouble or complica-Government in bringing pence tion to yourself delivered again to John Bull's other Ire- subsequently land I hero quote the arguments

to you at home and in Hongkong.

Catalogue & Full Particulars

from

of the rival Jew and Arab as they were put to me by Mr. M. Shertok, head of the politi cal department of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem, and Abdul Hadi Bey, secretary of the Arab

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Mr. Shertok: The aim of the present Arab disturbances is to force the hand of the British Phono 27778/9. Government by violence to abandon the principle of the mandate,

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Hongkong Telegraplı.

TUESDAY, November 15, 1938.

War Editorials

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Abdul Hadi Bey: Nothing of

versus JEW

A debate giving both sides of the Palestine question

the kind. All the Arab is trying and barren hillside which the

to do is to force the Govern- Arabs never dreamed of culti- ment to administer the man. vating into fertile farms.

Jews date fairly.

are being allowed to crowd into Palestine

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FACTS

Population of Palestine-760,000 Mostems, 307,000 Jews, 100,- OCO Christians.

1917-Balfour Declaration -

Britain favoured the immigrá- tion of Jews, but recognised rights of non-Jews. 1022.-Government White Paper emphasised the right of Jews to be in Palcaline.

1923.--League of Nations Man

date granted to Britain.

ment has not put these recom- mendations into effect?

✡

Because his

• Mr. Shertok: tory has decreed otherwise.' The mandate has decreed a national home for the Jews in Palestine and Great Britain will not go back on her word.

You Arabs have countries twenty times the size of Paies- tine in which you can develop

nationalist your The Jews have only the tiny aspirations.

country of Palestino in which to work out their own salvation. Arab is committing economic In striking and rloting the

suicide.

Abdul Hadi Bey: You have not answered my question. In addition, the Jew capi- talists have built up for the mendations of the experts who

The reason why the recom surplus of Not only has this been carried out is because of have visited Palestine have not enabled the Arab the

tremendous

at such a rate that within a few genious theory, but it does not Abdul Hadi Bey: A very in- years the Arabs will be minority. The Arab High Com- work out in practice in such a benevolent way. The Arab is a ONE of the most Impressive mitter which is conducting a

peaceful strike of protest at the simple fellow who is no match editorials of the hundreds refusal of the Government to for the Jew in business matters. What actually happens in stop immigration does not con- that a Jew comes along to an we have read on the recent done violence. The shooting

Arab farmer and asks him European crisis appeared in the and rioting is a spontaneous

outburst of the people them what his land is worth to him New York Times, It led the selves who see their lands and a year.

livelihood being taken away

If it is worth an income of page, without heading, and it

from them. Neither I nor my £200 the Jew will offer him If the £2,000 fabulous sum in the was a simple plea that through-colleagues can stop it.

strike was called off to-day vio eyes of the fellaheen-and will out the land, houses of worship lence would still continue,

tell him how he can invest the [should include in their devotions Arab is economically better off, original income without work- Mr. Sherlok: Rubbish! The money to bring himself in his a prayer that peace and under- for the presence of the Jew and ing

Jewish capital which has The Arab foolishly takes the Government standing would come to the brought £100,000,000 into the money and he and his family £6,000,000.

country, than he has ever been and tenants all lose their safe surplus world.

pressure of before. The Palestinian Arab is harbourage on the land. Unable farmers to be relieved of their Jewish vested interests and better off than his brethren in to exploit his £2,000, the Arab tithes year after year but it has

propaganda on the British The absence of spiritual con- Egypt, Syria, or anywhere else, fritters the money away and he, enabled the administration to Government. siderations has been one of the Because of employment given his family, and dependents are carry out an ambitious pro-

Nover were such powers more gramme of social services all of evident than when Mr. Ramsay by Jews the Arab population left penniless.

which mean employment for MacDonald calmly explained remarkable elements of modern has increased by 60 per cent.

since the war, mainly by Arabs Mr. Shertok: The large town

away the White Paper which diplomatic relations as well as flocking in from neighbouring population of Jews have opened Abdul Hadi Boy: Then why promised បទ justice. The of modern commerce. The Ver-

countries to share in the new up an enormous market for the is it that every commission of trouble is that the Arab is in- prosperity.

agricultural produce of the experts which has investigated articulate. sailles and Trianon treaties were

Arab farmers, who can always this matter since 1929 has He has no newspapers and no produce cheaper than the Jew stated that the Arabs have representatives in the House of written in an atmosphere that

Abdul Hadi Bey: Don't try to

farmers.

genuine grounds for grievance Commons. Now he is desper- make out that the Jew is in The Jewish immigrant be- and have recommended the ate and is making himself many regarded as irreligious. Palestine for the good of the comes a customer of the Arab stopping of Jewish immigration heard with rifle shot and bomb.

The Jew is building & from the first Invocation of the Deity, how. Arab!

moment he and land sales to Jews? Why Do you blame him? national paradise for himself lands in Palestine.

is it that the British Govern- Mr. Shertok: Yes. ever hypocritical it may be in and making a hell for the Arab. some circles, was wholly absent in the Paris deliberations, and in view of the purposes of some

of the negotiators, it was prob- ably more honest that God was

left on the outside.

People who deemed the trea- ties cursed by this circumstance

the Arabs.

Freethinkers-And Freedom

The Jew is conquering the whole of Palestine by financial and political means even as the Italians conquered Abyssinia. The Arab is an agriculturist and for him all riches are in the the International political ➜VERSHADOWED by the alarums land.

He cannot live away from the land. Now with their unlimited capital the Jews are buying that land and driving him into the towns to work at menial tasks as wage-slaves.

Already the Jews have taken

By "AN OLD STAGER"

The tussle really dates back to a few weeks before the rising of n weary Parlament for the long races,

situation, a more limited controversy has been waged with ardent which has been held in London. The when a stout Tory, Caplin Ramsay, vehemence during the past two or question which has bothered the presented a Bill designed to prevent embattled antagonists is not so much foreignern organising meetings in this three months.

It has related to the Conference of whether Freethinkers are right as country for purpose Freethinkers, dubbed by their whether Britain ought to permit such religious propaganda. enemies "the militant Godless," meetings at all.

can make a good case for their all the best plains for cultiva- GRIN AND BEAR IT

have bought tion and

over

belief in the past twenty years' 1,600,000 dunane (quarter acres) out of the 6,450,000 history. The treaties by their dumans of cultivatable land in complete avoidance of spiritual Palestine.

According to experts every elements and their emphasis on Arab needs 120 dunans of land purely material considerations, to support himself and his bred their own destruction,

family. As far back as 1929 there was only an average of 80 Every newspaper in the world dunans left per Arab family and

there is less still now.

has

written many thousand

Mr. Shertok: That is a com- words on war, racial persecution, plete distortion of the facts.

crises and the other curses that Arabs do not sell all their land to the Jews. As a rule they sell beset civilisation to-day, but none a section at a handsomo price come closer to the mark than and with the cash go in for in- tensiva farming on the romain-

the hope that Divine guidance ing section. may be available to repair the sink wells, provide irrigation Given capital in this way to

wreck that materialism has systems, buy machinery, the made of people and countries. with a smaller area of land.

Arab is economically botter off TO-MORROW That hope, and its frequent ex- Villages which have sold land

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pression, is worth more toward to the Jews are better off than villages which have hoarded Sa permanent solution than all their land.. Further, Abdul the aldoling strategy and diplo Hadi Bey's figures for the amount of cultivatable land in matic shibboleth that has been Palestino are an underesti- placed before the public this past mate. six months.

The Jew by scientific means is turning vast tracts of desert

PERNARD

"He won't carry anything, but cigars

By Lichty

he became a father to-da

anu-

The Bill got its first reading. 11 formality, but it has now passed In- to dust-covered limbo because there was neither time nor percepilble inclination to debate the matter further.

But that does not aller the principle of the thing. The Bill was presented by n persistent critic of the policies and deologies" of the. Soviet Union. He is regarded Parliament as a somewhat extreme right-wing supporter of the Govern

ment.

"Red" Propaganda

Captain Ramsay 1 a sincerely

reliefmus men, and has a horror of Sovietism's famous dietate, "Religion is the gopt of the_marsts," a saying often attributed to Lenin, but actually the announcement of a comparatively. obscure party official,

Some MPs abstained from voting; but broadly speaking, Unionists supported Ramsay, and the Op position voted against him. In fact, Reveral Government nien Joined with the Opposition, and several |Labour-Liberal men supported Rom- Bay. If I had been M.P. I would have voted against Ramsay's Bil. I do not like. It.:

Captain Ramsay's point is that the League of the Milliant Godless is not so much a group of free-thinkers such as ibose who emerged In Victorian days, 'nor that it is merelý ntheistic; he maintains that 'It inn |cover-up | for ・・ activa'' Communist [ propagando.

This may be

correct M. Jaroslavky a Communist writer, stater Cranki that?" The revolutionary profilariat - | Is npt concerned with a merelán papar war, of the old style of trže¿rought (Continued, án:Pron Bik

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