FURTHER OUTRAGES
OVER 1000 CASUALTIES SINCE
JULY 1
(Received August 23, 12.30 p.m.)
JERUSALEM, August 22,
Further outrages which have occurred throughout Palestine include a post office hold-up, an attempt to blow up the Haifa mail train, and attacks on a bus and a cart on which Jewish workers were returning home.
The "Palestine Post" publishes statistics of casualties during August as foll__ ows: Killed, 15 Britons; 41 Jews, 110 Arabs; wounded, 26 Britons, 86 Jews, 71 Arabs. The total casualties since July 1 are estimated at over 1000. A Jewess, Rachel Koka, aged 12, is being tried by a military court on the capital charge of carrying a bomb. Three Arabs were murdered on the roadside between Acre and Safad.
Pinned on their breasts were notes bearing terrorist "judgments."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 46, 23 August 1938, Page 9
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