The Daily Notes · Canonsburg, Pennsylvania · 13 January 1939
CP-1939-001
BRITAIN MOPS UP IN HOLY LAND; 3-YEAR ARAB REVOLT PUT DOWN; PEACE SESSION IN LONDON NEAR
Casualties Estimated at 2,000 Dead, 3,000 Wounded in Greatest Uprising Since World War
How this transcription was made
The scan is the headline block; there is no body text on it to transcribe.
Context added by this archive
January 1939. Mops up is a housekeeping verb for the end of a three-year revolt, and what is mopped up is a country. The line beneath carries the figures the headline does not: 2,000 dead and 3,000 wounded, and the paper’s own assessment that it was the greatest uprising since the World War. Both sentences are on the same page; only one of them is in large type.
A correction
two captions arrived swapped; “3-year Arab revolt” dates this to the 1936-39 revolt, not 1917
Cite this clipping
"BRITAIN MOPS UP IN HOLY LAND; 3-YEAR ARAB REVOLT PUT DOWN; PEACE SESSION IN LONDON NEAR," The Daily Notes, 13 January 1939, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1939-001. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1939-001
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