VIOLENCE RECURS IN PALESTINE
JEW SHOT DEAD FROM AMBUSH / BOMB EXPLOSION NEAR SYNAGOGUE (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received October 27, 7.5 p.m.) JERUSALEM, October 26. Terrorism has broken out anew in Palestine. A Jewish lorry driver was shot dead and his escort, an Arab constable, was seriously injured when a convoy of he Palestine Potash Company, travelling to Jerusalem from the Dead Sea, was ambushed near the Inn of the Good Samaritan, half-way from Jericho. The firing continued even after the arrival of police and members of the air force. Two Jewish constables on duty in the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem were fired on from an overlooking roof; one was wounded. A bomb exploded near a synagogue in the old city and one Jewish constable was wounded. After an exhaustive search, Hamdi Effendi Husseini, a member of the Mufti of Jerusalem’s family, was arrested. He was formerly head of an antiimperialistic league. Shots from a passing car occupied by Arabs wounded one of a group of children leaving a high school.
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Southland Times, Issue 23342, 28 October 1937, Page 5
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