ARAB LEADER KILLED IN PALESTINE
FIGHT WITH CAMERONIANS
JERUSALEM, October 7,
A fugitive rebel known as Public Enemy Number Two, was killed in a fight between the Cameronians and a band of fiye armed Arabs, who fired on them near Bethlehem. The rebel has been identified as. Said Bey El Assi, who came to Palestine from Trans-Jordan to lead the southern rebels and who sought to emulate the exploits of' Palestine’s chief mystery man, Fawzi Kawukji. The Cameronians also wounded and captured a prominent Arab, Abdul Khader El Husseini, a relative of a member of the Arab Higher Committee.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21909, 9 October 1936, Page 11
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