London, Aug. 28.
News has been received in London that G. R. H., Sykes, the superintendent of the Palestinian railway at Haifa, was stoned to death on Sunday.
The situation in Palestine ought never to have "got out of hand declares "The Times.
The paper urges the need of prompt and searching inquiry both into the responsibilities of the criminals themselves and into the responsibilities of the authorities. the utmost authority that our policy in Palestine will be quite unaffected by the efforts of either race to dominate the other.
"That our policy should stand," continues the Times? "is necessary both to our honour and to our plain interest. If we flinched we should soon have greater dangers to contend with elsewhere."
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