Palestine Disturbed over Port Question

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Palestinian public opinion is greatly perturbed over the possibility that the planned harbor for Palestine, for which a large part of the Palestine government loan of $22,500,000 is to be expended, will not be constructed in Haifa, as was originally projected.

The excitment was caused by a statement of the manager of the Palestine railways in a conversation with Palestinian merchants that the harbor may be built at Port Fuad instead of at Haifa.

The Hebrew press strongly protests today against such a possibility, declaring that this change of plans would be detrimental to the interests of Palestine in the view of the Jews and Arabs alike.

Port Fuad is not found on any of the maps of Palestine and it is felt that some error in the name has occurred in cabling.

Armed with pitchforks, hammers and crowbars, seventy persons attempted to stop members of the Ku Klux Klan bound for a county meeting at a farm near Comming, Lowa, an Associated Press despatch states. The arrival of officers prevented a disturbance.

Amassed on a railroad bridge at the north end of the town after marching from the business district, the demonstrators refused to allow Klansmen to pass.

Later in the evening two Klansmen were slightly injured and automobiles in which they were returning home from their meeting were badly battered by large stones and other missels heaved out of the darkness. The Klansmen did not stop to investigate, but notified the Sheriff.

Leon Trotsky’s name was mentioned as involved in the Zinovieff Opposition, which resulted in the latter’s removal from the Political Bureau of the Soviet government, according to a despatch from Moscow to the New York “Times.”