CLASH IN NABLUS
FOURTEEN REBELS KILLED SURPRISE ATTACK.BY BRITISH TROOPS. ONE SOLDIER DEAD & FIVE WOUNDED. By Telegraph —Press Association. Copyright. , JERUSALEM, August 19. Another clash occurred in Nablus, British troops surprising rebel leaders who were conferring in the village of Kafrharris. One British soldier was killed and five wounded. Fourteen rebels were shot dead. Planes assisted the troops and two airmen were injured in a crash at Selphit. SWIFT ACTION. DISTURBED AREA COMBED (Recd This Day, 9.55 a.m.) JERUSALEM, August 19. Swift action has been taken to prevent a spread of violence after night conflicts at Acre and Nablus, and troops are engaged in a rapid combout of these towns, which were plunged into darkness when rebels broks the street lamps. Four thousand villagers and headmen throughout Palestine have been detained in wire-fenced enclosures.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 1938, Page 5
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134CLASH IN NABLUS Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 1938, Page 5
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