The New York Times · New York, New York · 22 May 1936

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ARABS AND TROOPS FIGHT IN PALESTINE

Soldiers Rushed to Area Near Jerusalem After Peasants’ Fire Repulses Police.

By JOSEPH M. LEVY

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JERUSALEM, Friday, May 22.—A miniature battle has been going on since late yesterday evening between British troops and Arab peasants about twelve miles outside Jerusalem.

The trouble, which followed thirty-six hours of comparative calm, started yesterday afternoon when a crowd of Arabs fired from hilltops on a Jewish-operated bus coming from Tel Aviv, seriously wounding a Jewish man and girl. Police dispatched to the region met with such a volley of fire that they were unable to cope with the situation.

Cameron Highlanders were then sent out and immediately surrounded all the hillsides in the district. Two of the soldiers were wounded by the Arabs’ fire. Hundreds of arrests are expected.

Inquiry tonight at the Hadassah Hospital, where the Jewish man and girl shot were taken, and the government hospital, where one of the wounded British soldiers was sent, disclosed that dum-dum bullets had been used by the Arab attackers. Constable Kills Attacker An Arab shot at a British constable on duty outside St.

Stephen’s Gate in Jerusalem, but the shot missed, whereupon the constable fired thrice, fatally wounding his assailant. In Northern Palestine two of the oldest Jewish colonies in the country, Jafar Tobar and Sajara, both situated at the foot of Mount Tabor, have been menaced for more than a week by a large neighboring Bedouin tribe.

There are only one British constable and one Arab policeman as protection for the colonies. The Bedouins cut the colonies’ water supply for two days and have also stolen wheat from Jewish-owned fields. Several times mounted Bedouins have fired at colonists, but no one has been injured.

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