English, Arabic and Hebrew were made the official languages of the country.
On the 1st May, 1921, and succeeding days there was rioting in Jaffa and neighbourhood, which developed into racial strife. A Commission, under the chairmanship of Sir T. Haycraft, Chief Justice of Palestine, was appointed to inquire into the disturbances; its report was presented to Parliament in October, 1921 (Cmd. 1540).
For a succinct official account of the first year of the Civil Administration of Palestine the reader is referred to the High Commissioner's Interim Report (Cmd. 1499), published in August, 1921.
On the 1st July, 1922, there took place a reorganization of the administrative divisions of the country (cf. Part V., § 1).
On the 24th July, 1922, the Council of the League of Nations approved the Mandate for Palestine, the text of which is printed in the appendix to this volume.