MONEY AND MAIL STOLEN
♦ RAID BY BANDITS IN PALESTINE ‘RIFLES TAKEN FROM POLICE STATION (axmsa OFFICIAL WIBELXSt.) s RUGBY, August 17. The Colonial Office has announced that two armed men in Nablus yesterday robbed a postal employee of a mail bag for Jerusalem. It contained, among other things, £2OOO in notes, consigned by registered post from Barclays Bank,"Nablus, to Barclays Bank, Jerusalem. An armed party estimated at 30 men entered the Nablus urban police station and stole four rifles and ammunition. POLICE INSPECTORS ATTACKED RAIDS ON PRISONS BY BANDITS (Received August 18, 7.30 p.m.) HAIFA, August 17. A British police inspector and an Arab warder ’were wounded during a bandit raid on the Athlit prison. A Jewish police inspector, his wife, his mother-in-law, and his three children were kidnapped. A detachment of the 2nd Royal West Kent Regiment is searching for them. ____________
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22484, 19 August 1938, Page 13
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