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Show j f JEWS OBTAIN UPPER HAND IN PALESTINE; NATIVES FINED FOR ATTACKS ON COLONISTS 4! AFFA, Palestine, Jan. 21. (By The Associated Press). The government forces In this district are attempting i to stop rioting here by Imposing fines on the Inhabitants of the communities communi-ties which participate in them un.t following this up with raids upon tho towns and villages In the Jaffa district dis-trict to c611oct the fines. The experiment is an unusual one md its success up to the present, Is not evident. The Zionist.- are Jubilant Jubil-ant and see In this action a definite alignment of the govemmenl nn lh Ir ide. On the other hand, It baa I tried tr-ied up bitter feelings on the pari of the natives who see In tho govern-' incut s uctlon the beginning of Jewish I domination and the betrayal of the'r ; passionate longing for national frea-' frea-' dom. A fine amounting 'to $15.000 was Imposed by th' government on five I towns and Ullages In the Jaffa dls-j triet for alleged attacks made last .May by thHi- inhabitants upon Jewish i coloni -s nearby, To collect tho fin -Marge bodies ot Knglibh. Jewish aijd Hindu troops having machine guns surroundi-d Tul Kaiom and four other oth-er Villages near Jaffa, sent In tntifi and confiscated all th; livestock in-I in-I eluding the oxen. !'d the .intnuils lnt the fields and placed them und-n gua m i Than notices algned by sir Herbert Samuel, the British high commissioner, commission-er, were posted In the streets, demanding de-manding payment of tho fines. Mr Cambcll, assistant, governor of the district, called ihe leadin:; citizens citi-zens together In the city square of Tul Karem and in mr b , that he cattle would be epi up for only five d;iys . ol If the fli ea h not be ii paid bj that lima they would be vdd at auction and the proceeds turned over to the Jews who w . i ktims of the raids. It remains yet to he determined whether the fines win be paid. The seizure of the c at-tie at-tie deprived the farmers of means ! plowing their fields and it rs f d that this may lead to more unrest. |