A PITCHED BATTLE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22903, 10 June 1936, Page 9

A PITCHED BATTLE

ON HILLSIDE IN PALESTINE HIGHLANDERS AND SNIPERS (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) JERUSALEM, June 8. The sequel to the wounding of a woman bus passenger was a pitched battle in the moonlight on a hillside, when three convoys of Cameron Highlanders and police, deploying from armoured cars, drove 500 snipers from wartime trenches after four hours’ fighting. The snipers afterwards fired a fusillade at the military billets at Hebron and Jenin, and at the police station at Nablus. Five bombs were thrown at a girls’ school at Gaza, and another bomb damaged the main railway line.

BOMB OUTRAGE IN JERUSALEM

JERUSALEM, June 8. Seventeen people were injured by a bomb which was burled in the streets of old Jerusalem. MISCHIEVOUS REPORTS (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, June 8. A statement issued by the High Commissioner for Palestine stales that there is no foundation for the reports which have been published in Egyptian newspapers to the effect, first, that expanding bullets have been used by the police or troops in Palestine; secondly, that certain British soldiers refused to obey orders; thirdly, that 50 British soldiers have been killed or wounded.

These reports, says an official statement, arc wholly and utterly false. No expanding bullets have been used, or will bo used by the military forces in Palestine. No British soldier lias hesitated to obey an order, and no British soldiers have been killed anywhere in Palestine since the beginning of the present disturbance.