Jews Not wanted

Brimful of Jews, mostly from Adolf Hitler Land, the Polish immigrant steamer Polonia and the Italian Martha Washington made warily for Palestine this week, only to turn back when frantic radio warnings were flashed by British High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope who had practically an Arab insurrection on his hands.

In Palestine, which both Jews and Arabs call their "National Home," the two peoples make themselves articulate through the Jewish National Council and the Palestine Arab Executive, respectively. Neither the Council nor the Executive have any legal status but both have much prestige. Early last week President Musa Kazem Pasha el Husseini of the Arab Executive warned Sir Arthur Wauchope that Arab young bloods intended to demonstrate at Jaffa, the port of Jerusalem, "against excessive Jewish immigration."

As one non-Jew to another, the British High Commissioner replied that the duty of His Majesty's police, and troops if necessary, would be to stop the demonstration.

Two days later the Arab mob whirled through Jaffa under the green flag of Allah.

"Disperse!" commanded Deputy Police Chief Faraday and proceeded scrupulously to read the British Riot Act, a document of 48 words.

"Charge!" was Mr. Faraday's next order and his mounted and foot police, using only their truncheons, tried to club into submission 8,000 gibbering, shrieking Arabs who attacked with knives and brickbats, dragged policemen from their horses which stampeded whinnying and brought a puckered frown to the brow of District Commissioner Crosbie who watched from a window overlooking the melee in Jaffa's main square.

Mr. Faraday, battling in the thick of the mob, kept his policemen at their truncheon work until mobsters suddenly produced guns from beneath their robes. Ping went a bullet and a plugged policeman tumbled off his horse. Mr. Faraday then signaled to Mr. Crosbie for further instructions. Leaning out of his window Mr. Crosbie signaled back: "Police open fire!"

In the savage, two-hour street battle that followed twelve Arabs were killed, 110 wounded. Next day fresh Arab riots broke out at Haifa, Nablus and on the second day in Jerusalem where two Arabs were killed, 60 wounded as British police battled to keep them out of Jerusalem's ghetto. From Egypt two thundering squadrons of British planes took off to cow Jerusalem. There Arabs plaintively restated their eternal grievance: "Jewish immigrants have so much money that poor Arab farmers are tempted and sell out to them. Unless something is done the Jews will slowly buy up all of Palestine."

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