German Allegation Against British Troops Warmly Denied
(Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, December 23. rpHE GERMAN PRESS GIVES PROMINENCE TO A TELEGRAM FROM THE “PALESTINE ARAB COMMITTEE” SENT FROM LONDON AND ISSUED BY THE OFFICIAL GERMAN NEWS AGENCY, SAYS “THE TIMES” CORRESPONDENT, ALLEGING “INCREDIBLE BRUTALITIES" BY BRITISH TROOPS IN PALESTINE.
The telegram states that British troops arc gouging out the eyes of Arabs before killing them, and also torturing the disinterested civilian (Population.
1 “The popular method of bringing them to heel is a riding whip, which nearly every Englishman carries,” the report alleges. The German News Agency’s Beirut corespondent reports an Arab newspaper as saying that British troops at Attil shut up three Arabs in a shed which they then set on fire, burning them alive. The same newspaper is also quoted as saying- that all Christians in Palestine and Lebanon are refraining from Christmas celebrations, “as a token of grief at the terrible conditions of the country.”' The War Office emphatically denies the “slanderous allegations” of the German press against the conduct of troops in Palestine.
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Northern Advocate, 24 December 1938, Page 9
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