FURTHER BOMB OUTRAGES IN PALESTINE
Jerusalem, To-day.
Four Arabs were killed and fif-
NEW COMMANDER
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London, To-day.
The War Office announces that
teen injured by the explosion of a His Majesty the King has approved bomb near the Jaffe gate yesterday of the appointment of Lt. Col. Sir according to an official statement.
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Following this outrage a number John E. Laurie to be Commander STOP PRESS
of Jews were arrested.
of the Tientsin Area, British Troops
The principal streets and squares in China, with the temporary rank of the town are occupied by troops
with fixed bayonets and wearing of Brigadier in the place of Colonel steel helmets. Machine-guns have A. H. Hopgood, whose tenure ex- been placed in position on the pires on April 16, 1939. roofs of numerous houses. All
shops in the old part of the town the 1st. Bn. Rifle Brigade, is to be Lt. Col. J. T. W. Reeve, C.O. of are closed.
These precautions have been tak-Commander of the Hong Kong In- en for fear lest further bloody about September next, in the place fantry Brigade with effect `from
clashes between Arabs and Jews
of Colonel F. W. Bissett who is should occur after the Mohamme- dan weekly public prayers which throughout the Great War and retiring. Lt. Col. Reeve served are offered up every Friday.
gained the D.S.O., and tioned in despatches.
Despatches here from Nazareth state that serious disturbances have taken place in that town.
BRITISH POLICEMAN SERIOUSLY WOUNDED
was men-
Lt. Col. C. A. E. Cadell, of the Royal Artillery, is to be Comman- der of the Anti-Aircraft Brigade stationed at Singapore with the
It appears that among the vic-temporary rank of Brigadier."- tims of the outrage at the Jaffa Reuter.
gate to-day was a British policeman
who was seriously injured in the
head. The bomb is said to have from Transjordan and to enter Pa- been thrown by a gang of Jews at lestine territory yesterday. The a passing motor bus carrying Arab Transjordan border guards sup- passengers. One Jewess, suspected ported by airplanes frustrated the of participation in the crime, has attempt. Trans-Ocean. been arrested. Trans-Ocean.
H.M.S. Repulse, 32,000-ton bat-
IRREGULARS WITHDRAW tlecruiser has arrived at Haifa to Some 200 Arab irregulars at-replace the cruiser Emerald. tempted to cross the Jordan river 'British Wireless.
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The sudden squall, which struck the Colony at about 3.80 yesterday afternoon is known to have claimed at least two lives.
According to a police report, sampan No. 2019 capsized 200 yaids from the shore off Ngản Tau Kok, Kowloon City, with the result, that Lo Chui, five- year-old girl and Lo Kau-chun, four-year-old boy were drowned.
Lau Mui, an aged widow, was removed to the Kowloon Hos- pital suffering from immersion.
The mistress of the junk, Ip Mui, was fortunate to be rescued before she had suffered any ill- effects.
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