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WHILE ON PLEASURE EXCURSION, V SIR A. CHAMBERLAIN'S SON. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright, JERUSALEM, -July 21. Lieutenant Joseph Chamberlain, son of Sir Austen Chamberlain, who is serving with the Transjordan frontier force, is reported to have been captured by Wahabis while on a pleasure excursion with a patrol in Iledjaz tci> ritory.
A COMEDY OF ERRORS.
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(Received July 22, 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, July 21. The Sunday Express is informed that Lieutenant Chamberlain was in charge of two army transport cars on - July 14, when he inadvertently crossed the frontier, and was detained A Foreign Office official told the Sunday Times that Jlio land was all desert, and there was nothing to mark the border. It was really a comedy of errors, and there was no ill-feeling. An Amman message says that LieuI tenant Chamberlain’s release has been [ arranged through diplomatic channels,
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19634, 22 July 1935, Page 7
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