PALESTINE FIGHTING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 August 1939, Page 5

PALESTINE FIGHTING

BRITISH TROOPS ATTACK ARMED GANGS FIFTEEN BRIGANDS KILLED. LARGE QUANTITY OF ARMS SEIZED. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day. 9.35 a.m.) JERUSALEM, August 20. It is now stated that at least fifteen brigands were killed and a large quantity of arms seized in the fight between British troops and armed gangs northwest of Tiberias. REVIVAL OF REVOLT BRITISH OFFICER & OTHERS KILLED. (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) LONDON, August 20. The Jerusalem correspondent of "The Times” says: In the course of suppressing the revival of revolt, Lieutenant C. Rivett-Carnac, of the Sherwood Foresters, two Jews, one Arab and fifteen rebels were killed and three privates were wounded in a skirmish at Dirhannah, in the dispersal of forty rebels, ten of whom were wounded. The Murine .Control Department seized 840 illegal Jewish immigrants, in three vessels, who were mostly from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia, via Rhodes; The majority have been quarantined in other immigrants homes.