Oakland Tribune · Oakland, California · 3 May 1941
CP-1941-003
Arab Uprising In Holy Land
Zionists Kidnaped; Outbreaks Flare in Sections of Palestine
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Transcribed from the clipping
“BEIRUT, Lebanon, May 3.—(AP)—French sources said tonight that travelers from Palestine reported anti-Semitic outbreaks and kidnaping of Jewish leaders in the Holy Land as a result of Arab reaction to events in the Balkans and Mesopotamia.
This account said some Zionist leaders had been abducted by Arab Nationalists as disturbances led to bloodshed in several parts of Palestine, but that the British believed they could keep the situation in hand… The influential native Beirut newspaper published an editorial saying that British policy in Palestine had caused ‘bitterness in some minds.’…
Arabs in Palestine Urged to Fight British. NEW YORK, May 3.—(AP)—The German radio said today that the Iraq Government had directed an appeal to Arabs in Palestine requesting them to take up arms… A German wireless report from Beirut, Lebanon, said today that strong native troop contingents from Saudi Arabia had been concentrated along the south trans-Jordan border.”
Context added by this archive
The same Associated Press dispatch as CP-1941-002 and CP-1941-004, printed the same day. Oakland is the only one of the three that puts the kidnapping in a second line under the headline, and the only one that runs the Saudi troop paragraph. Its headline moves the story out of Palestine and into the Holy Land.
Cite this clipping
"Arab Uprising In Holy Land," Oakland Tribune, 3 May 1941. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1941-003. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1941-003
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