Jerusalem, Nov. 14.
The reoccupation of Palestine by British troops was carried a stage further yesterday, when Coldstream Guards cordoned off and entered Jericho, in the Jordan Valley, fifteen miles north-east of Jerusalem.
Simultaneously with the entry of the British forces, six warplanes appeared at dawn from over the Mount of Christ's Temptation and, as they formed a low air' cordon round grove-girdled Jericho, the roar of the machines provided a contrast to the cumstances of its biblical conquest, when the Israelites, blowing trumpets, marched round the walls, Two Arabs, who attempted to break through the cordon, were machine-gunned and wounded.
The Coldstream Guards immediately began combing the houses and the banana groves, while a howitzer detachment took a position commanding the approaches to the town.—Reuter.
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