§ Colonel Wedgwoodasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has any information about the affair at Tulkarm on 4th July, when an Arab band surrounded the police station, disarmed 22 policemen, and got a machine-gun and other arms?
Mr. M. MacDonaldThe High Commissioner for Palestine informs me that it is not the case that an Arab band surrounded the Tulkarm police station and disarmed any police. On the 1st July a number of Arab supernumerary police tendered their resignation at Tulkarm police station and handed in their arms and ammunition. That night the shed containing the arms and ammunition was burgled and 22 rifles and 1,250 rounds of small-arm ammunition were stolen. A Court of Inquiry has been assembled to investigate the affair.