OFFICIAL KILLED
MOTOR-CAR AMBUSHED
JERUSALEM, January 1
Last night on the Nablus-Jerusalem road Arabs ambushed and fired Non a motor-car in which Sir Charles Tegart, Chief of Police in Palestine, Major G. Brunskill,-staff officer, and Sir Charles Tegart's personal assistant, and the district police superintendent, Mr. G. D. Sanderson were travelling.
The car was preceded by armoured cars when it encountered a barrier of stones. Mr. Sanderson joined the police who went to remove them and the Arabs fired a volley. Mr. Sanderson was killed bht none of the others was hit. The Arabs escaped in the darkness.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 1, 3 January 1939, Page 8
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