PALESTINE UNREST
POLICE OFFICIAL SHOT
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JERUSALEM, June 12
Alan Sigrist, Assistant Police Superintendent, was shot in the shoulder, and taken to the hospital
Sigrist, a former Black and Tan officer, was returning from a tour of inspection with a British constable, when the Arabs, one of whom was a Government school teacher, emptied automatics into the car, which fell thirty feet into a valley, as Sigrist lost control of the wheel. The constable, though injured, returned the fire and wounded one assailant, who died in the. hospital. Others fled. A bomb was hurled at a train at Kalkilieh, and injured eighteen Jews. The Sigrist incident occured near Herod’s Gates, on the Jericho Road, close to Gethsemane. Police and troops pursued the unwounded of two assailants. The aid of police dogs was sought, but a tannery obliterated the scent, near the Mount of Olives.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 June 1936, Page 7
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