The Archive · 1939

Occur in Palestine

SPECIAL TO THE "¥.C.D.N."

Jerusalem, Mar. 27.

Abdul Rahim, so-called Arab rebel commander-in-chief, was shot dead today while trying to break through a cordon round a village near Nablus.

The first shooting outrage for some weeks resulted in the serious wounding of a Jew in the Muarara quarter of Jerusalem tonight. A 48-hour "stay-at-home" order has been imposed on the area. Another Jew was shot dead in Tiberias, Curfew was immediately imposed.

A third outrage occurred in Haifa, where a Jewish supernumary constable was fatally wounded when shots were fired at a rail van—

Reuter.

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