ALMOST WIPED OUT
GANG OF ARABS
BRUSH WITH LEICESTERS
(Received June 7, 12.30 p.m.)
JERUSALEM, June 6.
An Arab gang which is believed to have been connected with shootings at Kawkilieh on June 2 was practicallywiped out near Tulkarem in an engagement with the second battalion of the Leicestershire Regiment. At least fourteen Arabs were killed and scores wounded. It is believed that the number of deaths will reach 35.
Arab villagers south of Nablus captured a gang of twelve armed Arabs who had terrorised the countryside for a year and handed them over to a British detachment.
A Jerusalem cablegram published on June 3 stated: —An Arab gang shot dead an entire railway patrol, consisting of four British constables and three Jewish supernumeraries, near Kawkilieh, 35 miles north-west of Jerusalem. The gang captured the patrol's machine-guns and rifles.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 132, 7 June 1939, Page 11
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