The Morning News · Wilmington, Delaware · 12 July 1948
CP-1948-040
JEWS CAPTURE BESIEGED ARAB TOWN OF LYDDA
Fall of Twin Village Of Er Ramle Would Open Way for Push on Last Barrier to Holy City
How this transcription was made
The scan is the headline block only; there is no body text on it to transcribe.
Context added by this archive
Lydda is a town when it is captured and Er Ramle is a village when it falls, and the reason either matters is the road to Jerusalem. Printed a day after the Bridgeport Telegram (CP-1948-038), which was the only one of the three to put the people in the headline.
Cite this clipping
"JEWS CAPTURE BESIEGED ARAB TOWN OF LYDDA," The Morning News, 12 July 1948, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1948-040. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1948-040
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Last updated 2 November 2026
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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