FAMOUS ARAB MUNITIONS
RUNNER TELLS DETAIL OF
RUNNING GUNS PALESTINE
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DESPITE BRITISH PATROLS ARAB MANAGES
ELUDE WATCHES AND SMUGGLE IN
ARMS TO WAITING WARRIORS
By Edward J. Neil
JERUSALEM, Sept. 15, —This
old Arab is a Mukhtar, a sort of
a mayor of a small Arab village
-south of Jerusalem. He's a big,
villaiinous-looking codger until
you get to know him. He smoth
ers you with kindness, chokes you
with endless cups of syrupy
Turkish coffee, ruining your dig
estion.
Then, if you hammer hard en
ough at him, and he really trusts
you, he tells you about his spec
ialty—gun running.
Yes, sir, the Mukhtar is about
the cleverest Arab in Palestine at
sneaking rifles and ammunition
from Trans-Jordan, where rifles
and ammunition are lawful, into
Palestine, where they most cer
tainly are not, particularly since
the revolt against Jewish immi
gration and land buying started
-almost three months ago.
Losses Heavy
“But even knowing all the lit
tle wais (valleys and every inch
of the hills in the dark of night,
we lose 75 percent of the ship
ment, he says sadly.
And how is business at the mo
ment, with the revolt freshening
«very day, the death toll rising
steadily, tempers fraying, hatreds
more bitter, violence more ex
treme?
“It’s bad, very bad”, he says.
“Yesterday, after a whole week’s
work I reached here with 47 rifl
es, 10,000 cartridges. But the
more the British capture, the
more we smuggle, and the more
we get through.”
The northern border of Palest
ine now is so well protected by
British troops that Arab arms
smuggling practically has ceased
along the Jordan River line nor
th of the Dead Sea. But east of
the roasting valley of biblical
fame, some 2,000 feet below sea
level, there stretches a wide des
ert, most difficult to patrol but
simple territory for Arabs and
camels.
“Chickens and Eggs”
It’s not far to the Syrian bor-;
der along this desert corridor,
not far either to Iraq, where arms
also are easy to procure. And
coming into Palestine from the
south, through more bleak des-1
ert and hill country, there are
i many places for gun runners to
slip through the British cordons.
The Arabs say they have brot
in at least 10,000 rifles and hun
dreds of thousands of rounds of
ammunition through these holes.
There seems plenty of truth to
such a statement, for only a week
j ago, one caravan was caught in a
series of twisting wadis along
| the southern frontier between
Ghamr and Rashrash and in the
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As we drank more coffe the
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