New York Times · 11 July 1937

CP-1937-020

Basic Facts About Palestine

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“Beersheba sub-district extending to Gulf of Aqaba — cultivation unsurveyed.”

Context added by this archive

A map printed three days after the Peel summary. The Beersheba sub-district, which is most of the south, is marked cultivation unsurveyed: the largest area on the page is the one nobody had measured.

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"Basic Facts About Palestine," New York Times, 11 July 1937. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1937-020. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1937-020

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