PALESTINE DISTURBANCES

Evening Star, Issue 22364, 13 June 1936, Page 15

PALESTINE DISTURBANCES

POLICE OFFICIAL WOUNDED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright JERUSALEM, June 12. (Received June 13, at 10 a.m.) Alan Sigrist, assistant jiolice superintendent, was shot in the shoulder and taken to hospital. ONE ASSAILANT MORTALLY WOUNDED. JERUSALEM, June 12. (Received June 13 at 12.5 p.m.) Sigrist was a former Blaclj-and-Tan Officer. He was returning from a tour of inspection with, a British constable when Arabs, one’ of whom was a Government school teacher, emptied automatics into the car, which fell'3o leet into a valley as Sigrist lost control of the wheel. The constable, though returned the fire and wounded one assailant, who died in hospital. The others fled. . A bomb hurled at a train at Kalkilieh injured 18 Jews. / OTHER ASSAILANTS ESCAPE. JERUSALEM, Juno 12. (Received Juno 13, at 1.5 p.m.) The Sigrist incident occurred m*ir Herod’s Gates on the Jericho road, close to Gethsemane. Police and troops pursued the unwounded assailants with the aid of police dogs, but a tannery obliterated the scent near the Mount, of Olives.