MOONLIGHT BATTLE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 149, 9 June 1936, Page 7

MOONLIGHT BATTLE

Arab Snipers in War-time Trenches GIRLS’ SCHOOL BOMBED (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received 9, 9.45 a.m.) JERUSALEM, June 8. The sequel to tho wounding of a woman bus passenger was a pitched battle in the moonlight on a hillside. Three convoys of Cameron Highlanders and police, deploying from armoured cars, drove 500 snipers from war-time trenches after four hours of fighting. Snipers afterwards fired a fusillade on military billets at Hebron and Jenin and at the police station at Nablus. Five bombs were thrown nt a girls’ school at Gaza, and another bomb damaged the main railway line. CHARGES AGAINST BRITISH High Commissioner’s Denial (British Official Wireless.) (Received 9, 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, June 8. A statement issued by tho High Commissioner for Palestine states that there is no foundation for reports which have been published iu Egyptian newspapers to tho effect, firstly, that expanding bullets have been used by the police or troops in Palestine; secondly, that certain British soldiers ref/sed to obey their orders; thirdly, that 50 British soldiers have been killed and wounded. These reports, says the official statement, are wholly and utterly false. No expanding bullets have been used or will be used by the military forces in Palestine, no British soldier has hesitated to obey an order, and no British soldiers have been killed anywhere in Palestine since the beginning of the present disturbance.