TROOPS AMBUSHED AT ACRE
IRAQ PIPE-LINE DAMAGED. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Jerusalem, September 10. Following an ambush of troops and police at Acre, a seven-hour skirmish in which troops and aircraft co-oper-ated resulted in the killing of 27 Arabs. The British casualties were three dead. It is officially stated that the Iraq pipe line has been damaged 26 times since the beginning of the disturbances and that the escaping oil lias been four times ignited. Prompt detection in every instance has prevented the interruption of the flow of oil.
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Southland Times, Issue 22993, 12 September 1936, Page 7
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