Wall Street Journal · 10 April 1923

CP-1923-004

Mediterranean Issues: Palestine Under the English

C. W. Barron

Scan 855 × 2048 pixels

Transcribed from the clipping

MEDITERRANEAN ISSUES PALESTINE UNDER THE ENGLISH By C. W. Barron IS Cabled to Barron's from Jerusalem Palestine has 765,000 population now under English mandate as compared with Syria's 3,000,000 under French mandate. There are fewer than 100,000 people in Jerusalem. g Ten years ago there were 70,000. But when General Allen- by entered the town in 1917 there were only 50,000.

But the refugees have all returned and more. A large majority now, as 10 years ago, are Jews and Jerusalem likewise holds a majority of the Jews in Pales- n. tine. Were it not for the Jewish problem, the English with t. their base in Egypt, railway system in Palestine and (French barrier between them and the Turk on the north in would have an easy problem.

1- 71 SHALL THE JEWS NATIONALIZE PALESTINE 1- But the whole world has been stirred up over the pro- 1- posal "for the establishment in Palestine of a national 10

How this text was made

Transcribed by optical character recognition and not read back by hand.

Cite this item

"Mediterranean Issues: Palestine Under the English," Wall Street Journal, 10 April 1923. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1923-004. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1923-004

More from the 1920s

• Palestine Census CompletedThe Madison Courier · 13 March 1923
• ZIONISM DYING IN PALESTINE, WRITER CLAIMSBuffalo Courier Express · 15 April 1923
• Arabs Outline CampaignThe New York Times · 14 November 1923
• Stimulate move for the emancipation of women in PalestineLa Crosse Tribune · 26 January 1922
• Women of Palestine Entering the Industrial FieldThe Brooklyn Daily Eagle · 5 February 1922
• Odd Customs in Palestine Under BanHonolulu Star-Advertiser · 26 March 1922
• All 106 clippings from the 1920s →