Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-29
FIaq of Turkey Is Raised by
Moslems in NabIuS-Situa-
ton Under Control in
Larger Cities.
SOLDIERS CHECK THREAT
OF BEDoUlN HORSEMEN
Troops Are Checking Disorders in
Holy Land. but Spread in Viii
lages Is Feared-Guerilla War
fare Continued, Raiders Burning
Houses and Granaries.
az lie Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
JERUSALEM, August %
Arabs in Nablus. Central Pales-
tine City, were said here today
to have declared their inde-
pendence from England and to
have raised the Turkish flag.
By the Associated Press.
British army, naval and air
forces today held Palestine under
control except for marauding
bands in outlying villages, after
six days of fighting between Arabs
and Jews growing out of the re-
ligious rites controversy at the
Wailing Wall.
Threats of trouble from Bedouin
horsemen of tranS-Jordania were
reported to have been effectively
checked by British soldiers. The
population of Palestine, British,
Arab and Jewish, was being rap
idly disarmed.
All essential services, such as
telegraphs, railways and tele-
phones, escaped unchanged dur
ing the fighting. Communication
from Jerusalem to Cairo was open
by all these means today.
Renorts Called uncomfortable.
In London the British colonial Office
complained that reports of the govern
ments policy attributed to DR.. ,Weiz-
mann, president of the Zionist EXecu-
tive. after his conference yesterday with
Lord Passfe!d, fail by reason of their
incompleteness and want OF accuracy
to convey the purport of Lord Pass
fields conversations with DR.. Weizmann
and cannot be taken as authoritative. "
On the Zionist side. DR.. Weizmann
charged the Palestine government
clearly has been guilty of gross in
competence"
rusalem described terrible scenes OF
slaughter of men, women and children
in the Arab attack on Hebron Satur-
day. Sixty Jews. including Is American
students, were killed and their bodies
mutilated.
Guerrilla Warfare Continues.
Rioting in Jerusalem was ceasing to-
day with the steady arrival OF British
troops, but guerrilla warfare was IN
progress in the Jewish colonies. where
Arab raiders are burning houses and
granaries.
AS the situation came under control
within the larger cities today. there
was still fear of further spread OF
. itNt ho regions
British forces have been occupying
most of the Jewish colonies. and the
colonists are evacuating the places
where troops cannot be sent. Most OF
the refugees are flocking to Tel AViv.
Sir John Chancellor, the high COM
missioner. arrived in Jerusalem this
morning after visit to England. a
Jewish delegation Immediately went
into conference with him.
Tiberius Move Rumored.
Rumors were circulating today Of an
incipient movement by the Arabs at
Tiberius. on the Sea of Gaiilee, GAIA
and in Transjordania. AS troops con-
tinued to arrive, however, confidence
was felt that every movement could
now be checked.
British civilian volunteers in Jeru-
salem. have been under arms since
Friday night. and are being relieved
by the regular troops.
In Jerusalem the first Jewish shops
timidly opened for business today.
Tension was not relaxed and fear
persisted that the uprisings in Palestine
portened a more far-reaching Islamic
disturbance and Bedouin uprising.
Such peace As was obtained seemed the
result of British military repressive
m asures, which clamped authority on
Jew and Arab alike.
AS detachments of troops were sent
tn the various localities to restore order
British airplsnes scanned the hills and
countryside for belligerent Arabs and
opened fire on Arab parties in the
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