POSITION IN PALESTINE
SERIOUS DETERIORATION CONSULTATION WITH HIGH COMMISSIONER DESPATCH OF ADDITIONAL TROOPS (Received This Day, 12.55 p.m.) LONDON, October 5. In a statement in the House of Commons the Secretary for the Colonies (Mr M. MacDonald) said there had been a serious deterioration in Palestine, and as a result of this the High Commissioner was arriving on October 6 for consultation. Extra precautions included the despatch from Britain of two cavalry battalions and one battalion of infantry; also three battalions from India, due during the next few weeks. Hundreds of ex-service men were augmenting the police. HEAVY ENGAGEMENT EIGHTY REBELS KILLED MEMBERS OF GANG ACCUSED i OF MASSACRE (Received This Day, 1.50 p.m.) LONDON, October 5. The British United Press correspondent in Jerusalem reports that eighty rebels have thus far been killed, largely by the action of British warplanes, in one of' the biggest engagements throughout the disturbances. The British are engaging the gang believed to have been responsible for the massacre at Tiberias on October 3, who were encountered in the vicinity of the Sea of Galilee.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1938, Page 8
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