In an endeavour to maintain order in Palestine it was found necessary some time ago to introduce a law forbidding anyone to carty firearms under penalty of death, and already a number of Arabs have been dealt with for that offence. A short while ago a young Jew, Szloma Ben Joseff, was caught firing upon a Ir was in a distressed area where an intimerbus containing Arabs, was tried ant preacher sought and sentenced to death. The sentence created give thanks for.what they received. a great deal of protest, and Jews im Poland "My friends," he said, even went so far as to petition the Queen, asking when they drink. There's for her intervention on the young man's behalf. but lifts its head in thankfulness Those responsible for maint water that is so common.
Palestine decided that the sentence all hens." to be executed and that was A done. is no one who will not regret that Sayings from Home there can be no differentiation between E to be vindicated in this manner, but Seton: Wnts o WANAE—Mr. Here-Belisha. and Arab, when it comes to the enforcement of the law. Great Britain has been having no small amount of trouble in administering the movement—The Bishop of Durham. W becoming a nation in perpetual Palestinian mandate and providing a national home for Jews. The Arabs have very strong claims to the country by reason of their Jong 84 or 85—The Bishop of occupation of it, and the process of settling the It would not do da even MIN 9f London of Jews has been attended with considerable in the present cireumstances—The 1 render thanks to God every, Ey, day gates has increased greatly of late and acts of terrorism have been committed by hotheads on both sides. One of the best methods of keeping ar effective check on troublemakers has been to The nation which is spending three hours a day in cinemas is not going to produce another Shakespeare.—Sir Charles Grant Robertson forbid the possession of arms. In the case of this young Jew possession was aggravated by the fact that he was actually using a firearm against Arabs, making his offence just about as serious as it could be. It would be unjust for the authorities to have come to any other decision than they did, for the Arabs would undoubtedly have had a very real grievance if the guilt of this young man had not been punished in exactly the same way as that of their own race, It will only be possible to stamp out terrorism by the rigid application of the law, and while the execution of the death sentence has much of regrettable finality about it, the fact remains that it had to be performed, not only as a punishment of the young man in question, but as a warning to others who may be tempted to follow the same unfortunate courses.
These are no} have anything tional ' effort The maximum penalty for dangerous driving should be five years' penal servitude.—The Chief Constable of Bradford. staggers me when.a father and mother admit that a child of seven is, beyond their control—The Deputy Mayor of Hull, The gambling mentality" is notoriously incapable of appreciating the mathematical doctrine of chances—The Bishop of Liverpool, Almost everything in the newspapers is to some degree untrue by omission, exaggeration, distortion and selection—Mr. C. E. M. Jead.
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