FIGHTING IN PALESTINE
TROOPS ENGAGE BANDITS. BRITISH OFFICER KILLED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. May 24. A Colonial Office statement says heavy casualties were inflicted on a gang" of armed bandits which was located and engaged by aircraft in an area east of Tulkaram and subsequently engaged by troops. Government casualties were Major W. G. Beeton, killed, one officer and three other ranks wounded, and one interpreter killed. Eleven bodies of bandits have been recovered to date and two prisoners taken. A large quantity of ammunition was captured.
JEV/S AS GUNMEN. ATTACK ON ARAB QUARTER. (Independent Cable Service. I (Received This Day. 9.5 a.m.) HAIFA. May 25. A party of Jews drove in a stolen car into the Arab quarter where tney wounded five Arabs in running fire.
“Life’s a curious business,” mused the philosopher. "I know a man who hadn't kissed his wife for ten years. Then he goes and shoots a fellow who did.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 May 1939, Page 5
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155FIGHTING IN PALESTINE Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 May 1939, Page 5
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