Lydda Airport Buildings Set on Fire Jerusalem, Oct. 16.
The customs shed, wireless room and other buildings in the Lydda airport were burned this morning. Sabotage is suspected.
Meanwhile, no further disturbances have occurred in Palestine, although the situation remains tense.
Tt is nov: definitely established that the Grand Mufti is no longer within the fastness of the Mosque of Omar, but has fled the country to Syria.
Martial law is unlikely unless the situation deteriorates considerably. This decision is believed to have been reached after meetings between the Acting High Commissioner and police and army chiefs.—Reuter.
Fish Prices Japanese Press Claim Only Non-combatants There Asserting that only non7éombatants to-day reside in the Hongkew district, the "Shanghai United News," a local Japanese daily, yesterday bitterly assailed the shelling of the area by the Chinese, Scores of Japanese non-combatants, the daily said, have been killed by Chinese shells since the outbreak of the incident, while "several hundred" have been wounded.
This bombardment, the journal said, is "similar to the shelling of the area south of Soochow by Chinese guns on Thursday night "Irresponsibly, the Chinese are constantly distributing groundless reports on the killing of hundreds of innocent civilians by Japanese bombs and machine-gun fire, ignoring the fact that the Chinese military positions and establishments are suffering from Japanese bombardment, "Not the Japanese, but the Chinese themselves are guilty of bombing and shelling areas where non-bat ants reside.
"This", the journal declared, is proved by the fact that Japan had refrained from attacking Nantao, which plays an important part in the operations of Chinese troops in the Pootung area, "We must recall in this connection that thousands of Chinese were killed by Chinese aerial bombs on the 'Bloody Saturday' of August 14.
With regard to fresh fish, reports stated that there was ample supply of yellow fish at 11 per cent. below normal prices, fair supply of cod and soles at steady to declining prices, and of shrimps at prices about 34 per cent higher than those of ihe previous week. The supply of other dish was short to nil at steady but decreasing prices.
There was a fair supply of ducks at prices below normal, but the supply was short of spring chicken, fowl, pigeon, snipe. turkey and woodcock. The prices, however, were steady with a tendency to decrease except turkey, which went up four per cent. during last week.
Prices of fresh vegetables are still very irregular with a tendency towards an increase, although there was ample supply and a great variety. Only French beans, onions and tomatoes showed a decrease of 11, 25, and 18 per cent. respectively, compared with previous week. The supply ' of Chefoo apples bananas, has, grapes, lemons, oranges and pears was reported short, but prices have remained steady with a tendency to decrease compared with previous week. There was fair supply of other foodstuffs, such as milk, flour, grain. rice, etc. at steady to declining prices.
The supply of fuel was also fair, the best anthracite being sold at $35.33 a metric ton, No. 1 house coal, at $23,75, and No. 1 kitchen coal, at $2350.
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