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...Near Jaffa the orange grove of Manhattan Banker Felix Warburg was fired by inflamed Arabs. At Geniger others did likewise to a Jewish reforestation scheme known as Balfour Forest...
...villages were summoned to the High Commissioner's office, asked to call off the general strike which had paralyzed trade in Palestine for 40 days. The mayors bluntly refused unless further Jewish immigration were stopped immediately. A compromise was suggested by soft-spoken Assem Bey Sayed, Mayor of Jaffa; Sir Arthur had promised that a British commission would be appointed to review the whole Jewish-Arab problem. If the commission should be appointed at once and if it should decree the end of Jewish immigration until its deliberations were over, then the Arabs could have at least a symbol...
Starved for troops by the High Command, whose eyes were glued to the Western Front, Allenby launched a campaign up the coast of Palestine, taking Beersheba, Gaza, Bethlehem and Jaffa, splitting the Turkish armies. On Dec. 9, 1917, without firing a shell into the Holy City, he walked into Jerusalem, in deference to the Arab legend that Jerusalem's conqueror would enter on foot. Thenceforth the Arabs respectfully called him "El Nebi" ("The Man on Foot...
Meantime, the warring races continued to bedevil one another. In the preponderantly Arab city of Jaffa, Arabs set fire to a few Jewish shops. Thereupon the fire, backed by a strong wind, turned and burned a number of Arab homes. Jews from the Arab towns of Hebron, Acre and Beisan were evacuated to nearby Jewish communities. All-Jewish Tel Aviv was ringed with barbed wire to keep out bloodthirsty Arabs. In terrorist murders and police fire, the Jewish dead last week reached 18; the Arab, twelve...
...been left pregnant by John Brewer. The child's outraged mother took her daughter to Denver General Hospital, loudly pleaded for an abortion. That action raised questions of law, medical ethics and social customs which, by last week, had roused comment throughout the nation. Deputy Manager Bertram Barr Jaffa of Denver General Hospital forbade the abortion, a simple procedure in the early stage of the child's pregnancy, until the district attorney would guarantee that the abortionist would not be prosecuted for an operation which in Colorado is a crime. This the district attorney refused to guarantee, pointing...