DARKER DAYS IN PALESTINE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21085, 11 July 1938, Page 7

DARKER DAYS IN PALESTINE

British Troops on the Move Sabotage of Railway Services Mounting List of Casualties UnliPd Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received July 10, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 9. The British War Office announces that a third infantry brigade is going to Palestine on September 1. Meanwhile the Eleventh Hussars and an armoured car regiment are leaving for Palestine from Egypt, as soon as possible. The Black Watch Regiment has taken up its stations in the streets and it is rumoured that battalions of the Irish Guards and Essex Regiment are standing; by in Egypt. H.M.S. Repulse has arrived at Haifa. ATTACKS ON RAILWAYS SECTION OF TRAFFIC SUSPENDED United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received July 10, 6.30 p.m.) JERUSALEM, July 9. Sabotage on the main PalestineEgypt railway resulted In the derailment of a goods train. Traffic has been suspended. Brigands fired on District Commissioner of Galilee while he was investigating the attack on a Jewish motor bus. The week’s casualties are estimated at 52 Arabs and 12 Jews killed, 145 Arabs and 18 Jews wounded.

LAWLESSNESS SPREADS ARREST OF SUSPECTED JEWS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received July 10, 7.30 pun.) JERUSALEM, July 10. Six Jews were wounded in affrays throughout the country on Saturday. Three Jews have been arrested in connection with the fatal bomb throwing In the city. Bombs At Haifa At Haifa two were seriously injured and 91 slightly hurt in an explosion inside a Jewish bus.