ATTACK BY ARABS
FIRE ON POLICE CAR
WOUNDING OF OFFICER
PLUNGE INTO VALLEY
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(Reed. June 13, 1.30 p.m.) JERUSALEM, June 12
Further details of tile affray in which Mr. Alan .Sigrist, the Assistant Police Superintendent at. Jerusalem was shot, in the shoulder show that the incident occurred near Herod’s Gates, on the Jericho road, close to Getlisemane.
The police pursued the assailants involved with the aid of police dogis, but a tannery obliterated (lie scent, near the Mount ot Olives,
Mr. Sigrist, a former Black and Tan officer, was returning from a. tour of inspeetion with a Hritish constable, when tlie Arabs, one of whom is a Government school teacher, emptied automatics into the ear, which fell 30ft. into a. valley as Mr. Sigrist lost, control of the wheel. The constable, though injured, returned the fire and wounded one assailant, who died in the hospital. The others fled. A bomb hurled at a train at. Kalkilieli injured 18 Jews. . . ...
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19040, 13 June 1936, Page 6
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165ATTACK BY ARABS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19040, 13 June 1936, Page 6
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