The Palestine Commission of inquiry, which ends its sitting today, has issued a statement to the] people of Palestine.
The statement says:—
"The witnesses whose evidence we have heard have been drawn from many sections of the community and most parts of the country. From all parties we have had full measure of assistaie and ce-operation in our work. We feel that we take home not merely d record of recent tragic events which have so marred the history of this country, but material which will be most helpful]
our analysis of the causes of those events and suggestion: value from individuals representative of organizations regarding steps which should be taken to avoid a recurrence of such outbreaks, The mission we have received from His Majesty's Government is twofold. We have completed the first part, namely, local inquiry. In the more difficult task which lies before us, which is that} of determining the causes of the outbreak and of framing recom mendations for the future, we shall be encouraged by the thought that} all in this. country, who were concerned in this inquiry, readily cooperated with us. We shall apply ourselves to that task with full eonfidence that they will be equally ready to ce-operate with us in the conduct of the future policy of this country on such lines as Majesty's Government, after consideration of our recommendations, may decide te adopt.—British Wireless through Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.