The enquiry which has been conducted into the action of the police in Nablus on August 23rd. (the anniversary of the anti-Jewish massacres of August 1929), in firing on the Arab mob which had refused to disperse when called upon to do so, has found that Superintendent Kyles, who was in command and who was himself seriously injured in the fighting, was justified in ordering his men to fire, says an official statement issued here to-day.
The report reveals that the mob had disarmed a British corporal and that Superintendent Kyles ordered his men to shoot only when the corporal and he himself were hard pressed by the mob and were both suffering from loss of blood because of their injuries.
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