§ Colonel Wedgwoodasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will make a statement as to the Arab attack on Sakhmata, near Acre, on 30th January, when eight Arab supernumerary policemen surrendered and the corporal is alleged to have been murdered; and, in particular, if he has any record of the corporal having been implicated in the outrages at Safed in 1929?
§ Mr. Ormsby-GoreOn 29th January a supernumerary police post at Suhmata was surprised and overpowered by some 40 to 50 armed Arabs. After being stripped and disarmed the corporal and eight men were marched to a place some three kilometres away, where the corporal was shot dead and the others were then released. Active measures have been 869W taken against villagers believed to be implicated. As regards the second part of the question, I am informed that the murdered corporal was sentenced by a District Court in connection with the 1929 disturbances at Safed.