PALESTINE REINFORCEMENTS
IN CASE OF NEED
[by CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.]
LONDON, September 5
The “Daily Telegraph" understands that. 10.000 ‘reinforcements, including 12 infantry battalions, are leaving for Palestine on September 11. This will bring the total number of British troops in Palestine to 17,000, sufficient to enable the imposition of martial law, although, hccording to a War Office official, the present intention is to make such a display of force that maitial law will be unnecessary. A message from Jerusalem states that the British decision to reinforce the Palestine troops lias hardened the attitude of the Arabs, to whom the rebel leader. Fauzi Bey, has issued a call to arms. His presence is believed to bo responsible for the highest total oi British casualties since the outbreak of hostilities. The derailment of goods engines, apparently due to sabotage, resulted in the death of two British soldiers and a native driver, while a reserve driver was scalded. Two naval engine-drivers were injured. The Arab higher committee has resolved to continue the strike “until the country is saved.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 September 1936, Page 7
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