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Spicer, Palestine Police Chief, Not to Return to Post

October 20, 1937
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IT WAS ANNOUNCED OFFICIALLY TODAY THAT ROY GODREY BULLEN SPICER, PALESTINE INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF POLICE AND PRISONS, WILL NOT RETURN TO JERUSALEM. MR. SPICER WAS RECENTLY THE TARGET OF AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT BY ARABS WHO AMBUSHED HIS CAR NEAR AN ARAB CAFE BEHIND POLICE HEADQUARTERS. HE HAS BEEN IN ENGLAND ON LEAVE OF ABSENCE.

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