ALLEGED ATROCITIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 244, 13 September 1929, Page 7

ALLEGED ATROCITIES.

MASSACRE AT HEBRON. COMMISSION’S INVESTIGATION. (Australian Press Association.) JERUSALEM, Sept. 11. An eerie scene occurred at Hebron cemetery to-day, when the bodies of 57 victims of the massacre were exhumed in the presence of a medical commission composed of three British, three Arab and three Jewish doctors. The purpose of the exhumations was to settle to the satisfaction of the British authorities the controversy, raging with accumulating fire, as to whether the Arabs committed the unspeakable atrocities attributed to them by Jewish eye-witnesses. JThe commission’s findings are not likely to be disclosed for some days. ' SENSE OF INSECURITY. (Times Cables.) LONDON, Sept. 12. The Times’s correspondent at Haifa states: “Despite reports that all is quiet at Haifa ana Galilee, there is still a sense of insecurity. The Jews are demanding the punishment of the instigators of . the Hebron massacre, also that a number of Arab notables pav compensation to. refugees, widows and orphans, and a ransom for the murdered, according to Arab custom. “Arab counter-claims include the stopping of Jewish immigration, the repeal of the Balfour Declaration, the appointment of a British Moslem High Commissioner, the dismissal of Jews employed in secretarial work, telephonists and nurses, the withdrawal of Government relief to unemployed Jews, the disarming of Jews, or permission for Arabs to arm, and the imposition of a duty on foreign oil and grain. . . “The Palestine Arabs are raising funds for the relief of their injured brethren and are collecting reports of Jewish attacks for presentation to the Government.”