ARMED ARAD BANDS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 18 November 1937, Page 9

ARMED ARAD BANDS

I BROKEN UP BY BRITISH TROOPS ; ! JICVVISII LA DOURER FATALLY SHOT I | (Uni Led Picks Association—lly Electric Telogni pfi —Copy rißh tl | •' Received 18111 November, 10.20 a.m.) .JERUSALEM, 17th November. The operations of three companies of British troops against an armed band of Arabs north of Safed concluded with its breaking up and dispersal. The remnants of a band of mounted Arabs who attempted to i. eak through a ring of soldiers under cover of darkness wore heavily machine-gunned. The j exact casualties are not known, but the ! Arabs, buried several bodies in the vicinity. A Jewish labourer was fatally shot and stabbed on the plain ol Esracdon. A police patrol ear arrived just, in the nick of time to save an Arab policeman from attack in the centre of the city. II is assailants wounded him in the face: with a dagger and tried to seize his rifle, but ran off and escaped. When a police patrol tired on (lie rail- 1 way station at the Jewish .settlement of I Ainharod, on the Plain of K.sdraelon. it ! was burnt out, telephone wires serving j Llm whole plain being severed, cutting j off all communication. In the same area armed Arabs at-1 tacked a Jewish police patrol, which succeeded in repulsing them.