The New York Times · New York, New York · 30 September 1936
CP-1936-019
MARTIAL LAW DUE IN PALESTINE TODAY
King Edward and Councilors Decree Emergency Powers for General Dill.
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LONDON, Sept. 29.—An order in council providing for martial law in Palestine was decreed today by King Edward and the Privy Councilors at Balmoral Castle, Scotland. It enables Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope, the High Commissioner, to delegate to General J. G. Dill, commanding the Palestine forces, power to make all regulations for public safety and defense.
Most of the twelve infantry battalions with artillery, totaling approximately 15,000 men, which were recently ordered to Palestine have now arrived there. The troop ships conveying the remainder are en route. By this new authority from the Privy Council the proclamation of martial law probably will be made in Palestine tomorrow.
Under this law General Dill will be able to make regulations for the public safety which he regards as necessary and which will be unchallengeable in any court of law.
He will also have the power to estabish military courts for the trial of offenses against those regulations and provide, if he think fit, that there shall be no appeal from the decisions of those courts and that the judgments and orders of those courts shall not be open to challenge or review elsewhere.
Among the powers that may be delegated to General Dill is that of making regulations on such subjects as censorship, arrest, detention, exclusion and deportation, control of harbors and ports, movements of vessels, control of air fields, transportation by land, air and water, trading; appropriation, control, forfeiture and disposition of property, and infliction of communal fines and forfeiture and destruction of property as punitive measures.
This action by the British Government follows the statement of policy issued by the Colonial Office Sept. 7 stating that the campaign of violence in Palestine could not be allowed to continue and more rapid and effective action must be taken to end the disorders with the least possible delay. Twenty More Arabs Killed JERUSALEM, Sept.
29—Twenty Arabs were killed today and three British soldiers were wounded in a day-long engagement near the village of Jaba. Airplanes engaging in the fight were believed to have inflicted other casualties. Repercussions in Transjordan JERUSALEM, Sept. 29.—For the last three weeks the disturbances in Palestine have been having repercussions in Transjordan.
The government there is using every possible means of keeping the inhabitants from joining the Palestine Arab rebels. The Emir Abdullah is exercising his personal influence in holding the Bedouin tribes in check. Military force is another important element, as well as actual cash distributed among the Bedouins to keep them quiet.
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"MARTIAL LAW DUE IN PALESTINE TODAY," The New York Times, 30 September 1936. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1936-019. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1936-019
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