Summary
Sir Thomas Haycraft, Chief Justice of Palestine, appointed Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into the May 1921 disturbances by Herbert Samuel on 7 May 1921 (Palestine. Disturbances in May, 1921. Reports of the Commission of Inquiry with Correspondence Relating Thereto, PDF p.5).
Details
- Haycraft chaired the Commission with H. C. Luke and J. N. Stubbs, signed the Interim Report on the Khedera raid on 1 July 1921, and is named as Chairman throughout the Jaffa Report (Palestine. Disturbances in May, 1921. Reports of the Commission of Inquiry with Correspondence Relating Thereto, PDF p.5, 18-19).
- A Mukhtar witness in the Khedera inquiry professed to have heard of the raid for the first time from the Chairman of the Commission (Palestine. Disturbances in May, 1921. Reports of the Commission of Inquiry with Correspondence Relating Thereto, PDF p.17).
Related pages
Palestine. Disturbances in May, 1921. Reports of the Commission of Inquiry with Correspondence Relating Thereto, Haycraft Commission of Inquiry, Herbert Samuel, Jaffa Riots of May 1921