ARAB ATTACK

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 264, 6 November 1937, Page 9

ARAB ATTACK

PALESTINE POLICE STATION. Received Nov. 5, 7.5 p.m. JERUSALEM, Nov. 4. A band of Arabs attempted to storm the police station at Beissan, Northern Palestine. A hundred shots were fired before the constables beat off the attackers without sustaining casualties. INTERNED ARABS RELEASED JERUSALEM, Nov. 4. Fifty Arabs have been released from the detention camp in Acre, where 500 are interned under an ordinance for the prevention of crime. Religious leaders have appealed to the Government to release all those interned in view of the commencement of Ramadan, when the Moslems observe the feast from sunrise to sunset. WIDESPREAD SNIPING JERUSALEM, Nov. 4. The release of Arabs is officially denied. The Jewish bus on its way to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv was ambushed and fired on while travelling over a mountain road. The driver and a passenger were slightly wounded. The driver managed to drive on. An Arab foreman of the Public Works Department was wounded when three Arabs sniped a house near Acre. Other snipers punctured the Iraq pipeline near Beisan. The damage was repaired. The continued cutting of the telephone in the neighbourhood of Gaza has complelled the authorities to order the villagers to appoint peasant vigilantes at the villagers’ expense to patrol the line.