Yesterday morning, as the sun 10% lover the Mount of Olives, the Battalion, The Coldstream Guards, began purging operations against the walled old city of Jerusalem.
In steel helmets, with bayonet: fixed and wearing full war kit and gym shoes, the Coldstream Guar marched silently, in the grey lish! towards their objective. They wer Jaccompanied by stretcher bearers and machine-gun partie Aircraft, swooping overhead, braved the rebel' ire to drop sheaves eafets in the narrow streets.
The Royal Northumberland Fuh ers followed the Coldstream Guar while the British police ce-operated the operations.
All-exits to the city were covered machine-gun posts, while a party of the Northumberland Fusiliers o°- Jcupied the crest of the Mount tives, commanding the Mo: av area, The task of cordoning off various quarters of the town and making systematic search of the premises the" began, and was believed likely to 10> several days, under the most dans ous conditions.
Troops were posted facing tht barricaded streets and snipers, wh? were stationed at vantage points 'Mosque Sanctuary Cut Off As the rebels probably relied ups the inviolable sanctuary of the Moss area, which lay to the south-<ss! corner of the walled city, the mililars problem' was to sever their rettest from this area from the other section® of the town,
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