BRITISH TROOPS
FIGHT IN PALESTINE
BATTLE WITH BEDOUINS
(Aust. and N.Z. Cable) London, Sept. 14
The Daly Express’s correspondent at Jerusalem states that British troops were in action at. the foot of Mount Tabor, where 600 Bedouins were reported at dusk on Tuesday to be advancing upon villages at the foot, of the mountain, stealing cattle and sheep. British armoured cars and a detachment of Green Howards were sent to intercept them, and a fierce battle is raging. This is by far the most serious action in which he British forces have been engaged yet. The latest, news is that a mounted column of Arab raiders which attacked the Jewish village of Mesgha and wa s making off with a great herd of cattle had been hemmed in on the southern shore of the Sea of Galilee, striving to retire to the Arab town of Beisan. Fighting continues.
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Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2305, 6 September 1929, Page 5
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