CAPTURED BY ARABS
SIR A. CHAMBERLAIN’S SON WAS ON PLEASURE EXCURSION (United freaa ?.s»oclattan—By Electric Telegraph Copyright). JERUSALEM, July If). Lieutenant Joseph Chamberlain, .son of Sir Austen Chamberlain, who is serving with the trans-Jordan frontier force, is reported to have been captured by Wahabis while on a pleasure excursion with a patrol in Hedjaz territory. A later message says the “Sunday Express” is informed that Xiient. Chamberlain was in 'charge of two army transport ears when he inadvertently crossed the frontier and was detained.
A Foreign Office official told the “Sunday Times” that the land was all desert, and there ' was nothing To mark the border. It really was a comedy of errors, and there was no illfeeling. Lieut. Chamberlain’s release had been arranged through diploma 17c channels.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 22 July 1935, Page 5
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