Jerusalem, July 10.
British troops today arrested more than 100 Jewish extremist leaders throughout Palestine in an effort to prevent Arabs from taking retaliatory measures in reprisal for terrorism which British officials blamed on the Zion Revisionist Organization.
Reinforced British troops cleared the streets of Jerusalem following additional stabbings and threats of terrorism, Pedestrians were roughly searched for arms and driven off the streets as' virtual martial law was enforced. Communist circulars were widely distributed urging the Arabs to take action against the "Jew Fascist Murderers." The Arab Nationalists attempted to check their followers, but it was feared the inflamed Arabs would retaliate with new ter-Torism against innocent Jews.
Estimated casualties in Palestine during the past week as a result of Arab-Jew terrorism: 52 Arabs killed, 42 Jews killed, 145 Arabs wounded, 18 Jews wounded.
Two Jews were stabbed today on the Jaffa-Telaviv border, another was stabbed at Haifa and three were shot in Tiberias.
British reinforcements still were en route to Sheframer, near Haifa, where an armed band of extremists was besieging the local police garrison.—United Press.
"A Miserable Failure"
London, July 10.
"Let us be honest with ourselves and admit that we have made a miserable failure of our task in Palestine," the "Sunday Times" writes today in a critical article dealing with the present disturbances in the Holy Land.
"With a friendly Turkey and a new Palestine such as the Jews have proved they could set up, peace in the East was assured. And we might have presided over one of the most beneficial enterprises of imperial justice ever to have made this country famous and mankind grateful.
"Had we taken the chance offered, there need have been no Conference at Evian (to deal with the problem of political refugees). The complete answer to the problem of persecution was in our hands. But we frittered away the greatest opportunity we ever had.
"From the point of view of the British Government, the gravity of the renewed Arab-Jew disturbances in Palestine is constituted by the fact that they necessarily postpone the opportunity for a political settlement of whatever kind."
The "Sunday Times" concludes. "The fault for what has happened lies with us. We must make up our.minds as to what it is right to do,—and do it quickly."—Havas.
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