TROOPS FIRED ON BY ARAB HIGHWAYMEN
CLASH IN TEL AVIV. (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, October 19. A communique issued by the High Commissioner for Palestine (Lieuten-ant-General Sir Arthur Wauchope) on Saturday refers to firing on a patrol of the Second Battalion of the Buffs near Milya, a village in the Acre sub-district. The communique stated that the military, in co-operation with aircraft, dispersed the assailants, who were believed to have been Jebel Druses from Syria, and that later it was established that they were high-wa-men and not political rebels. It was believed that three casuatlties were Inflicted by the troops. One British officer and one private were slightly wounded early on Saturday morning in Tel Aviv, and two Arabs were shot and wounded by unknown assailants who escaped. The condition of one of them is serious. Pleading guilty, four Arabs were sentenced to imprisonment for 14 years at the Nazareth Assizes for the murder of a British policeman, Constable Mott.
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Southland Times, Issue 23026, 21 October 1936, Page 5
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