FATAL AMBUSH

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 29, 28 October 1937, Page 5

FATAL AMBUSH

Jewish Lorry-Driver Killed in Palestine (Received 28, 8.45 a.m.) JERUSALEM, Oct. 26. A Jewish lorry-di'iver was shot dead And j®n escOrting Ai'ab constable was seriously wounded when a convoy of the Palestine Potasli Oo. was travelling to Jerusalem from the Dead Sea. The convoy was ambushed near the Inn of the Good Samaritan, halfway from Jorieho. Tho' fii'iug continued even after tho arrival of the police and aif force. The Jewish constables on duty in the Jewish quarter at Jerusalem were fired on from an overlooking roof. One was wounded > A bomb exploded near the synagogue in tho old city. One Jewish constable was wounded. After an exhaustivo search Mamdi Eft'eixdi Husseini, a, meinber of tho Granj Mufti's family, xvas arrested* He was a former heaj oi tho Auli-linperial-istio League* Sliots fired at a jiassing car occupied by Araba wounded one of the children Who were leaving the high school on tlxe Plain of Esdraelon. pan-arab agitation in m0r0cc0 (Received 28, 8.45 a,in.) PARIS, Oct. 27. Rioting at Casablanca, Rabat and Fe$ following the afrest of four Hative agitators, one from Palestine with a British passpQft, is believedrto be Associated with a Pan-Arab agitation thi'ougliout Morocco and later extendiiig to Algeria and Tunic euoouraged by certain foreign. Powors. Important doc- , unieMg have been seized,.