In an effort to forestall further anti-Jewish disturbances in Tripolitania, British military authorities today reinforced their units here with a battalion of the Gordon Highlanders, which disembarked in Tripoli. The situation here is quiet, but tension has not abated. Sir Bernard Paget, British Commander-in-Chief in the Middle East, left for Cairo today after conferring here with local authorities.
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