Questions regarding the export of opium from tran to China were also lasked in the course of yesterday's session, Mr. "Valentine MeEntee, Labour member for West Walthamstow, asked London, July 29, Suggestions for the settlement of the problem raised "by repeated and continued troubles in Palestine, were forwarded to Mr. Malcolm ' Mac-Donald, British Colonial Secretary, by the visiting Egyptian Premier, Mohamed Mahmud Pasha, when the latter called at the Colonial Office this afternoon, it is learnt from well-informed quarters.
'The statesman's suggestions' were mide to conform to the Arab view regards a solution to the Holy Land question, the same circles add.
Meanwhile, the British Government are determined to carry out their scheme of partition as "modified by propositions that may be submitted within three months by the Woodaead Commission, which is at present inquiring into existing conditions on the spot, politicians declare, was strategical considerations that induced the Government to enforce the partition plan with the object of having at the disposal of British naval and land forces the whole of the Mediterranean coast, it asserted.
The scheme in question actually provides for the separation Palestine into Arab and Jewish states with Britain retaining control over Jerusalem, a corridor running to the coast and' a part of the coast itself. Havas,
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