With two British soldiers of the famous Black Watch regiment, dead from Arab gunfire directed at them in the streets of Jerusalem, tension in the Holy Land again becomes acute. To enforce British law and order the Colonial Office has sent Sir Charles Tegart, famed as "The Man of Iron” during bacification of Bengal, to Palestine. Rigorous measures now in force include searching of all Arabs entering cities for concealed arms as the soldiers at right are doing at one entrance to Jerusalem andarmed concentration at danger zones like the group equipped with barbed wire barricades in Jaffa. Below. The bombing of Arab villages in reprisal for armed attack has also been utilised. In CENTRE, ABOVE, is pictured such an explosion when British army engineers mined and blew to pieces and Arab village near Tel Aviv.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20387, 30 December 1937, Page 9
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136With two British soldiers of the famous Black Watch regiment, dead from Arab gunfire directed at them in the streets of Jerusalem, tension in the Holy Land again becomes acute. To enforce British law and order the Colonial Office has sent Sir Charles Tegart, famed as "The Man of Iron” during bacification of Bengal, to Palestine. Rigorous measures now in force include searching of all Arabs entering cities for concealed arms as the soldiers at right are doing at one entrance to Jerusalem andarmed concentration at danger zones like the group equipped with barbed wire barricades in Jaffa. Below. The bombing of Arab villages in reprisal for armed attack has also been utilised. In CENTRE, ABOVE, is pictured such an explosion when British army engineers mined and blew to pieces and Arab village near Tel Aviv. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20387, 30 December 1937, Page 9
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