Jerusalem, Mar. 5.
Sir Harold MacMichael, new High Commissioner of Palestine, in a broadcast from Government House to-day invoked the assistance of the people of Palestine in his difficult task: His first duty, the High Commissioner said, would be to maintain justice, authority and a firm establishment of law and order.
A British officer 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 aid. Aeroplanes appeared on the weenie and, with the assistance of infantry, scattered the gang. At least twelve of the criminals are reported to have been killed when the aeroplanes opened machine-gun fire on them.—Reuter.
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