The Archive · 1939

Palestine Parleys Reach Critical Stage

Arabs Insist on Immediate Independence Jews Refuse to Suffer Minority Status — London, Mar

IHE Palestine Conference talks appear to have reached a critical Guerillas Burn Twelve Japanese Planes Chungking, Mar, 3.

Chinese guerillas on the night of February 19 raided the Japanese airfield at Yingchen, in Hupeh province, setting on fire twelve Japanese machines, it is claimed in a Chinese dispatch.—Reuter.

Municipal hand, and the Japanese milit-consular police, on the other, protection of Japanese na-and the prevention of terstage, states Reuter's Biplomatic Correspondent.

The Jewish delegation are firm in their decision not to accept the British suggestions, und the Arab delegation are emphatically re-asserting the original Arab demands made when the talks opened. A closer examination of the Arab counter-proposals, the correspondent declares, indicates that they are far from constituting a compromise; and there is little hope of their acceptance by the British British Budget to

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