More British Troops For Palestine
64 Dead and 163 Wounded in Week’s Fighting
SABOTAGE ON RAILWAYS United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyrlgnt. Received Sunday, C. 30 p.m. LONDON, July 9. The War Office announces that the Third Infantry Brigade is going to Palestine on September 1. Meanwhile the Eleventh Hussars’ armoured car regiment is leaving for Palestine from Egypt as soon as possible. A Jerusalem message says sabotage cn the main Palestine-Egypt railway resulted in the derailment of a goods train. Traffic was suspended. Brigands fired on a district commissioner at Galilee while he was investigating an attack on a Jewish motorbus. The week’s casualties are estimated at 52 Arabs and 12 Jews killed, with 145 Arabs and 18 Jews wounded. Six Jews were wounded in affrays throughout the country on Saturday.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 161, 11 July 1938, Page 7
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