Mt. Vernon Register-News · Mount Vernon, Illinois · 12 July 1948
CP-1948-001
JEWS TAKE TWO FORTS FROM ARABS
Defenders of El Ramle and Lydda Surrender to Israeli Army After 2-Day Battle. BIGGEST PALESTINE AIRPORT CAPTURED
How this transcription was made
The scan is the headline stack; there is no body text on it to transcribe. The record carried the year only. The date, the page and the city were confirmed against the paper’s own front page: Mt. Vernon Register-News, Mount Vernon, Illinois, Monday 12 July 1948, page 1 — the same morning as the Wilmington and Saint John headlines on Lydda.
Context added by this archive
The same July 1948 events as the Lydda headlines in this archive (CP-1948-038, CP-1948-040), told as a military sequence: forts taken, defenders surrendered, airport captured. The word for the people of El Ramle and Lydda is defenders, and they appear only at the moment they stop. The masthead date is not legible on this scan, so the record carries the year alone.
Cite this clipping
"JEWS TAKE TWO FORTS FROM ARABS," Mt. Vernon Register-News, 12 July 1948, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1948-001. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1948-001
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This record is part of Covering Palestine, an archive of American newspaper clippings about Palestinians, 1724 to 2023. Researched and assembled by Maria Robles.
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