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Martial Law Order Expected Tonight; Last Troops Set to Go

September 29, 1936
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Orders-in-council, bearing the approval of King Edward and the Privy Council, will be published tomorrow night providing for proclamation of martial law in the most disturbed areas of Palestine, it was disclosed today. The decision was approved at a council meeting in Balmoral Castle.

The Third Battalion of the Coldstream Guards and the Second Battalion of the Buffs, comprising the last two units of the First Division being sent to Palestine, will sail Saturday on the steamship Laurentic it was announced today.

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