PLANES IN PALESTINE
Arab Concentrations Dispersed By Machines. NAVAL DETACHMENT'S ACTION (British Official Wireless.) ■ '•' i ■ (Keceived 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, August 28. The Colonial Office states that there is little change in the situation in Palestine. Jerusalem, Jaffa and Haifa are reported to be quiet, the disorder in the neighbourhood of the last-named place being satisfactorily dealt with by, a naval detachment from the warship Barham.
Aircraft have been employed reconnoitring the disturbed areas and fire from the air has been opened on parties of (Arabs in the neighbourhood of Haifa and Ramleh, and on the hills around Jerusalem.
A ' strong Arab concentration was reported south-east of Gaza, but aitcraft have been unable to locate any parties of Arabs in the neighbourhood and no attack has so far materialised.
Last night, continuous attacks on Beit Alpha, four miles west of Beisan, were successfully repulsed by a detachment of. the Transjordanian frontier force. Telephone lines from Jerusalem to Nazareth, Haifa and Tiberias are reported to be cut.
The situation in Transjordania reported to be normal.
No'reinforcements, other than those mentioned in yesterday's statement, have been dispatched to Palestine.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 204, 29 August 1929, Page 7
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