Omaha World-Herald · Omaha, Nebraska · 20 October 1937
CP-1937-009
BRITISH CONTINUE PALESTINE CURFEW
Hopeful of Restoring Holy Land Quiet—Arabs Attack Sporadically
The Associated Press, Jerusalem
Transcribed from the clipping
Sporadic attacks on Jews and Britons marked the week end, but stern British measures prevented any recurrence of widespread violence. An Armenian street photographer, apparently mistaken for an Arab because he wore the red fez-like tarboosh, was shot and critically wounded on a main street of Jerusalem.
Shortly afterward, shots were fired at a party of Arab laborers passing through the suburbs on their way to work. One was injured. British police in motor patrols donned steel helmets for the first time since the 1936 disturbances. An Arab was shot dead here and a Jewish tailor was stabbed and seriously injured in the Keremavrahm quarter.
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Datelined Jerusalem, October 18. The publication date recorded here is October 20, which the clipping itself does not show.
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"BRITISH CONTINUE PALESTINE CURFEW," Omaha World-Herald, 20 October 1937, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1937-009. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1937-009
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