18,500 TROOPS IN PALESTINE

Close Watch On Roads. JOURNALISTS SHOWN PUNITIVE MEASURE.

Transcribed from the clipping

The correspondents were taken on a tour of several miles from Haifa, and witnessed the demolition as a punitive measure of an Arab village near Acre. Sappers expeditiously carried out the demolition. The Royal West Kents occupied the surrounding district while the demolition went on.

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"18,500 TROOPS IN PALESTINE," Western Morning News, 27 October 1938. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1938-005. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1938-005

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PALESTINE FACES NEW BLOODSHEDThe Buffalo News · 29 July 1938 · the same year
Punitive Measures In PalestineThe Buffalo Times · 3 August 1938 · the same year
PALESTINE CURFEW LIFTED BY BRITAINThe Buffalo Times · 3 August 1938 · the same year

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