EX-SOLDIERS RECRUITED
FOR SPECIAL SERVICE IN ' PALESTINE 100 MEN RECRUITED (United Service) Reed. 10 a.m. LONDON, Tuesday. A picked body of 100 ex-servicemen, who were recently recruited in London, is to go to Palestine for special service. The men will be drafted into the British section of the Palestine police force, which is composed of British Jews and Arabs. The hulk of the men are under 25 years of age, and 75 per cent, of them have recently left the forces. The Jerusalem correspondent of the “Daily News” says the bodies of massacred Jews are being exhumed at Hebron with a view to obtaining definite evidence in regard to the alleged atrocities by Arabs. Naval detachments have replaced the Devons at Ghaza and Jaffa. The aircraft-carrier Courageous is about to leave for Malta.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 765, 11 September 1929, Page 9
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