FIGHT WITH ARABS
TROOPS IN PALESTINE . AIRMEN PREVENT AMBUSH JERUSALEM, Dec. 19 Thirty Arabs were killed and 15 captured in the battle that followed yesterday's ambush in the Hebron hills. Major-General O'Connor's British guard of honour left the loyalty demonstration to engage the Arabs. They were reinforced by the Worcestershire Regiment, which was summoned by wireless. Air Force "spotters" prevented a serious ambush of British military and civil administrators.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23226, 21 December 1938, Page 14
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