The Chinese are shortly to make a supreme effort to retrieve their position in North China, according to a Japanese report from Paotingfu.
General Chiang Kai-shek, it states, has massed 130,000 troops in the vicinity of Shihchiachwang, near the border of the provinces of Hopei and Commenting on the action taken by the British authorities in Palestine, as announced in a communique yesterday, "The Times" says it will tause feelings of intense relief in many quarters in Palestine, "This relic" the newspaper declares, "will not be confined to Jews. Before the end of last year's disturbances several prominent Arabs of moderate views had been killed or General Chen Chien, Chief of the General Staff at Nanking, has been sent to Shichiachwang, the report adds, with orders for General Liu Chih, Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese forces in North China, to halt attacked by terrorist gunmen. Since the middle of April nine Arab notables have been murdered, two have been wounded ud many more have been blackmailed. All these men were opponents or critics of the Mufti of Jerusalem.
"To the list must be added Halim head of the Criminal Inion movement at Haifa and an admirable officer, who was on the track of one of the imported murder gangs in northern Palestine and who, with other Arab police officers and detectives, paid the penalty for his courage and loyalty.
"Whatever becomes of the Mufti, who took sanctuary on July 17, his influence is likely to be shaken. He has lost two high offices, which gave him control of large funds amounting, according to the Royal Commission, to £67,000 yearly, and the appointment of some 1,500 clerics who must preach his polities in their Friday sermons and during their tours of inspection.
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