IN PALESTINE

Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1929, Page 5

IN PALESTINE

THE CASUALTIES,

(United Press ..Association.— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) / V JERUSALEM,' August 81. Official communiques put the casualties so far down as:— KiMed—j>3 Moslems, 4 Christians, 97 Jews. ’ v . Wounded—ll 3 Moslems, 9 Christians, 150 Jews. Now in addition it is’’ estimated there'' have 'been a hundred Moslems killed and three hundred wounded in . measures. ' . ’ A FRENCH REPORT. >: ir-•< • " PARIS, August 31. It is reported that during the Moslem demonstrations at Baghdad, n ■ Jew in self-defence wounded an Aran. A crowd seized the' Jew' and the police charged,' and ten Moslems were • killed. ’ ’ '■ ‘ ' ; OFFICIAL REPORT. ' London, August 31. f A Colonial Office communique says \ British troops * hold 1 all the important centres Between 1 Safed and Beersheba. This ayea ; is reported to vbe quiet. Bedouins frdtrt Syria and Sinai and Tran'S-Jordan threaten ■to march on Palestine 1 ahd some crossed the 'frontier.'; , Ail ; air force and armoured car werev tient to deal with'the situation. ' : - A' courageousaviator landed at, ■Guta and has ■ reported that 'ten Jews were killed and 29 wounded ? and’ two Moslems killed and four wounded in yesterday's outbreak at Safed, -, ; /