Jerusalem, Mar, 5.
Sir Harold MoeMichael,' new High Commissioner of Palestine, in a broadcast from Government House to-day invoked the assistance of the people of Palestine in his dimeult task. His Mest duty, the High Com: missioner said, would be to maintain Justice, authority and' a firm est Ablishment of law and order, 'A. British ofoer was slightly wounded and a British soldier was killed when a party of British troops encountered an armed Arab gang in the village of Yamnun, west of Jenin.
"The troops sent a wireless message asking for aircraft to come to their id. Aeroplanes appeared on the Scene and, with the assistance of infantry, scattered the gang. At least twelve of the eriminuls are reported to have been killed when the aeroplanes opened machine-gun fire on them.—Reuter.
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