TO BE REINFORCED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 240, 11 October 1938, Page 7

TO BE REINFORCED

PALESTINE FORCES TROOPS AND POLICE DECISION IN LONDON [By Telegraph—Prese Association—Copyright] LONDON, Oct. 9. As a result of conferences between the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, and the High Commissioner in Palestine, Sir Harold MacMichael, the Colonial Office is sending to Palestine four infantry battalions, armoured cars, and a battery of artillery, and is augmenting the police force with ex-servicemen. There are 13 battalions and two cavalry regiments at present in Palestine. A battalion of the Green Howards and a battalion of the Irish Fusiliers has ieft Malta for Palestine. The conferences on the situation in Palestine between Sir Harold MacMichael and Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, at whose request Sir Harold MacMichael is in London, will, it is understood, be resumed to-morrow and probably last over Tuesday.

RECENT CASUALTIES SEVERAL INCIDENTS. JERUSALEM. Oct. 9. Five Arabs and Jews have been killed and 11 wounded in the past 24 hours. A goods train was derailed and the wagons burned on the Haifa railway. The Customhouse at Jenin has been burned down. Trench mortars were used to disperse attacks on police and military posts. Police quelled rebels at Motza. a stray bullet killing an Arab woman. The rebels set fire to buildings at Nesszhona belonging to. Shukri Bey, who opposes the Grand Mufti.