Miles City Star · Miles City, Montana · 8 December 1917
CP-1917-005
HEBRON, PALESTINE, OCCUPIED BY BRITISH
Transcribed from the clipping
“London, Dec. 7—General Allenby reports that he has occupied the town of Hebron, in Palestine, the British war office announces tonight. Ancient Hebron, is situated about twenty miles southwest of Jerusalem with approximately 15,000 inhabitants. Tradition identifies it as the site of the tombs of Abraham and other patriarchs. King David resided there the first seven years of his reign.”
Context added by this archive
The place name is set in the headline, in capitals, as an ordinary geographic fact. The same London dispatch ran in the Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester on the same day under a different headline, Allenby Occupies Hebron, Palestine. Neither paper was making a point about the name. It was what the town was called.
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"HEBRON, PALESTINE, OCCUPIED BY BRITISH," Miles City Star, 8 December 1917. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1917-005. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1917-005
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