PALESTINE UNREST
SERIOUS CONFLICT WITH ARABS PLANES AND TROOPS ENCASED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright) JERUSALEM, September 16. Thirteen planes and every available soldier in northern Palestine are engaged against the largest Arab force since the outbreak of the trouble. The conflict has waged for hours around the village of Dierghassen, near Tulkarem. Soldiers are blocking the exits from the battlefields. It is believed that at least 100 Arabs have been killed. Two cavalry squadrons and anotherbattalion from England and three battalions from India are going to Palestine.
OTHER INCIDENTS (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 10. (Received September 17, at 1 p.m.) The Palestine Partition Committee heard further evidence in privatf today. Official Palestine advice states that action by the combined Government forces following the killing of a Jewish constable resulted in’ 14 rebel casualties. Other incidents were the killing ot aa Arab boy in Jaffa, arson at Niana railway station, an armed robbery - of £*so from Jaffa municipality, and sabotage of the Iranian Petroleum Company’s pipe line and telephone wires.
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Evening Star, Issue 23065, 17 September 1938, Page 17
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