LAND OF RAZED VILLAGES
CONDITIONS IN NORTH PALESTINE LEADER OF REBELLION NOW A FUGITIVE GRAND MUFTI MORE POWERFUL THAN EVER Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 7. The situation in North Palestine is particularly bad,” says the Cairo correspondent of the ‘ Daily Mail.’ The leader of the rebellion is now g fugitive in Beyrout from British authority, and Abdel Rahman Haj Mohammed is com-mander-in-chief of the organised rebels. “ The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem is more powerful than ever, while the Palestine Government holds a shadow ot office. Palestine is becoming a land ol razed villages and empty houses, whose former occupants joined the rebels because there was nowhere else to go Abdel Rahman issues daily communications, which mysteriously appear on doorsteps in troubled areas.” BRITISH SENTRIES WOUNDED
JERUSALEM, October 7, (Received October 8, at llati.. Surprised while on sentry duty at Lyclcla railway junction, a British soldier was seriously wounded and another slightly wounded.
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Evening Star, Issue 23083, 8 October 1938, Page 17
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153LAND OF RAZED VILLAGES Evening Star, Issue 23083, 8 October 1938, Page 17
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