FURTHER OUTRAGES.
Mora British Troops For Palestine. LAST WEEK’S CASUALTIES. (Received 1.30 p.m.) HAIFA, July 10. To-day's terrorism, including two bomb outrages, caused 25 Jewish casualties, some of whom are not expected to aurvive. Two were seriously injured and six slightly hurt in an explosion inside a Jewish bus. A London cable states that the War Office announces that the 3rd Infantry Brigade is going to Palestine on September 1. Meanwhile, the 11th Hussars and an armoured car regiment are leaving for Palestine from Egypt as soon as possible. Sabotage of the main Palestine-Egypt railway resulted in the derailment of a goods train, and traffic was suspended, says a message from Jerusalem. Brigands fired on the district commissioner of Galilee while he was investigating an attack on a Jewish motor bus.
The week's casualties ' are estimated at 52 Arabs and 12 Jews killed, and 145 Arabs and 24 Jews wounded. Six Jews were wounded in affrays throughout the country on Saturday.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 161, 11 July 1938, Page 9
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