DEATHS IN FORTNIGHT
TOTAL OF 500
RECORD CASUALTY LIST
(Received October 7,1 p^m.) JERUSALEM, October 6. One hundred and thirty Arabs were killed by British troops in 24 hours. There has b'e^en an aggregate of 500 deaths in a fortnight, which is a record casualty list.
Arabs have damaged the railway to the extent of £2000. They ambushed three road trucks, killed two Jewish drivers, and wounded one, and set fire to the trucks. A fourth Jew is missing. Police subsequently killed two of the brigands. The encounter flared up into a general engagement in which troops and aircraft participated. Additional terrorism accounts for the deaths of two Arab constables and one Jewish constable.
Arabs punctured the pipe line, ignited the oil, and cut the telephone wires in the Nazareth district. v
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 85, 7 October 1938, Page 9
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