DISORDERS IN PALESTINE
* Bandits Besieged By Troops NOTORIOUS TERRORIST KILLED (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (Received March 7, 11.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 7. Two thousand troops, assisted by the Royal Air Force and police, surrounded 200 bandits in the Nablus area, says the Jerusalem correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph."
The troops are gradually closing
The bandits originally numbered 400, but of these the ground troops killed 40. Fifty others were ma-chine-gunned from the air. The dead include a notorious brigand who was implicated in the recent terrorism. A reward of £SOO was offered for his capture.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22345, 8 March 1938, Page 13
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