Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-01
BY HENRY w. BUM.
THE following is brief summary
Of the most important news of
the world for the seven days
L ended August 81.

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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the first
nonstop flight over the Pacific, the
Graf Zeppelin arrived over the Golden
Gate, San Francisco, on the evening
of August Is. Not stopping, she held
on for Los Angeles, where she moored
the next morning, and whence she took
Off about noon of the 9th. Arriving
at Lakehurst on the morning of the
10Th, she thus completed the first cir
cumvolation of our planet in 81 days,
seven hours and rs minutes. Quite
obviously feat Of the very first order
PALESTINE.-On August % a bloody
crisis develop in the dreary, ancient
"Wailing Wall controversy at Jeru-
salem. The Wailing Wall is, or is re-
puted to be, remnant Of Solomons
Temple, and thither since one knows
not when pious Jews have been wont
to betake themselves for fermentation.
Close to the Wailing Wall is the Mosque
of Omar, shrine very much resorted
to by Moslems. Arabs own the land on
which the wall stands, but the Arabs
have no objection to resort Of the Jews
thither But the Jewish ritual requires
a screen to separate the male from the
female walters, and the screen Zone
needs a local map to visualize the
thing) blocks or restricts access to the
Mosque of Omar. The Jews refuse to
give up the screen. The Arabs say they
must.
On August % fighting began be-
tween Arabs and Jews Of Jerusalem,
apparently the Arabs being the i'm
mediate aggressors. Minor clashes soon
followed at Jaffa, Haifa, Nablus, Tel
Aviv and other considerable towns, the
sundry Jewish colonies scattered
through Palestine, chiefly OF those in
the vicinity of Jerusalem, were attacked
with bloody results.
The police having proved unable to
cope with the situation, British planes
and troops were rushed to Palestine
from Egypt and British warships from
Malta to the Palestinian ports, while
Jerusalem was placed under martial
law. BY the evening Of the 25th, some
$50 British troops having arrived in
Jerusalem from Egypt and one cruiser
at Malta (Marines landed by the latter
would soon reach Jerusalem, only 30
miles away by train), the British au-
thoritieS had the situation fairly in
hand in Jerusalem, while British planes
were succoring the outlying Jewish COL
onies.
ships had reached THE ports, one bring
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number of airplanes Ctroop-carrying,
fighting, bombing) had arrived from
Egypt and elsewhere. We were told that
as many as 30 ships of war had arrived
at or were under orders for Palestine,
including battleships, a cruiser, 2
aircraft carriers, 8 destroyers and 8
sloops and 81 aircraft besides those on
the cruisers. More troops, with album
dance of artillery and armored cars,
were en- route already. With the troops
and material so far available a plan OF
operations Involving use Of troops, de-
tachments, airplanes and armored cars)
looking to pacif1cation Of the entire
country had been vigorously set afoot,
and it was thought that complete real
ization of the plan would quickly fol-
low arrival of the reinforcement ex-
pected soon.
The fighting at Hebron had been even
more bloody than that at Jerusalem,
the majority of the Jewish victims Gin
Guiding eight American citizens) be-
ing students at the rabbinical college
The official lists Of the morning OF the
25th showed an estimated total OF cas-
ualities throughout the country as FOL
lows: Killed. 143 GAG Moslems, Chris