Word: patroller
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Typically, several Arabs, choosing a moment when guards of the Christian Lydda Airport had relaxed their patrol and were resting in a watchman's hut, set fires which caused airport buildings and equipment to burn last week for a loss of $100,000. Next, the police station at Daharieh, between Hebron and Beersheba, was overwhelmed by Arabs who made off with the Christian policemen's arms, shouting: "Tell your English bosses to go drink whiskey and play football! They should not think they can fight us. We will drive them out of Palestine...
...restore their arms, roughly ordered Moslem women to aid them in searching cellars. Having found no weapons, the Christians set charges of dynamite under the houses of three prominent Arab residents who remained helpless while their homes and goods were blown to smithereens. Finally the Christians, after sending their patrol to mark other Arab homes, announced: "We are prepared to spare one house for each rifle returned...
Since the non-intervention patrol, and particularly since the "piracy" patrol British and French ships have mutually used strategic Port Mahon as an anchorage-one more reason for that extraordinary harmony of Franco-British policy which even the Germans were admiring last week...
...London Film) expertly applies the Grand Hotel idea to a British troopship. The 23rd Royal Lancers, homeward bound on H. M. S. Somersetshire after five years in India, are informed by wireless that they are to have but six hours ashore in Southampton, must then push off again for patrol duty in the Near East (''Sorry men, but if we're going to own an empire, we've got to pay for it"). Well-managed cameras bustle about sketching, vignetting, peering into lives affected poignantly, happily, comically, by this upsetting circumstance, bring each little drama...
...Ankara last week reports were that General Inönü had backed up Dr. Aras and been cracked down upon for his pains. The British and French were quietly informed that the Turkish Government "interprets" the Nyon agreement as not affording any special Turkish facilities in the pirate patrol...