ARAB LOSSES
MANY KILLED BY BRITISH TROOPS FOLLOWING ON OUTRAGES IN PALESTINE. RECORD CASUALTY LIST IN FORTNIGHT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) JERUSALEM, October 6. One hundred and thirty Arabs were killed by British troops during 24 hours, making a total of 500 deaths in a fortnight, which is a record casualty list. The Arabs damaged the railway to the extent of £2,000, ambushed three road trucks, killed two and wounded one of the Jewish drivers, and set fire to the trucks. A fourth Jew is missing. The police subsequently killed two of the brigands in the vicinity, and the encounter flared up into a general engagement, in which troops and aircraft participated. Additional terrorism accounts for the death of two Arab and one Jewish constable. The Arabs puncture,d the pipe-line, ignited the oil and cut telephone wires in the Nazareth district.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 October 1938, Page 6
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146ARAB LOSSES Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 October 1938, Page 6
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