ROAD AMBUSH
ATTACK ON POLICE CAR IN PALESTINE. BRITISH OFFICIAL KILLED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. JERUSALEM, December 1. Last night on the Nablus-Jerusalem road Arabs ambushed and fired on a motor-car in which Sir Charles Tegart, Chief of Police in Palestine, Major G. Brunskill, staff officer and Sir Charles Tegart’s personal assistant, and the district police superintendent, Mr G. D. Sanderson were travelling. The car was proceeded by armoured cars when it encountered a barrier of stones. Mr Sanderson joined the police who went to remove them and the Arabs fired a volley. Mr Sanderson was killed but none of the others were hit. The Arabs escaped in the darkness.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1939, Page 5
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109ROAD AMBUSH Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1939, Page 5
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