PITCHED BATTLE IN PALESTINE

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21805, 10 June 1936, Page 11

PITCHED BATTLE IN PALESTINE

SNIPERS DRIVEN FROM OLD TRENCHES JERUSALEM, June 8. Shots were fired on a convoy of Jewish omnibuses and one woman I was wounded. The sequel to this incident was a pitched battle in the ' moonlight on a hillside, when three convoys of Cameron Highlanders and police, deploying from armoured cars, drove 500 snipers from wartime trenches, after four hours’ fighting. The snipers afterwards fired a fusillade at the military billets in Hebron and Jenin and at the police station at Nablus. Five bombs were thrown at a girls’ school at Gaza and another bomb damaged the main railway line. OFFICIAL DENIAL REPORTED DEATHS OF BRITISH SOLDIERS (•BITISB OFFICIAL WI*«L««.) RUGBY, June 8, A statement issued by the High Commissioner in Palestine (General Sir Arthur Wauchop) states that here is no foundation for the reports vhich have been published in Egyptian newspapers to the effect: t (1) That expanding bullets had t >een used by the police or troops in : s alestine; ] (2) That certain British soldiers lad refused to obey orders; (3) That 50 British soldiers had teen killed and wounded. These reports, says the official tatement, are wholly and utterly r alse. No expanding bullets have t een used or will be used by the r lilitary forces in Palestine. No s •ritish soldier has hesitated to obey n order, artd no British soldiers r ave been killed anywhere in Pales- £ ne since the beginning gf the ores- “ at disturbances. * p