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Late Palestine News

December 22, 1937
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THE RECENT INCREASE IN TERRORIST ACTIVITIES IN PALESTINE IS THE RESULT OF THE RECEIPT OF $100,000 FROM ITALY VIA SYRIA, IT WAS RELIABLY REPORTED TODAY. SINCE THE CUSTOMARY PAY OF ARAB BRIGANDS IS THREE PIASTRES DAILY, ARAB TERRORIST LEADERS WERE BELIEVED SUFFICIENTLY FINANCED TO CONTINUE HOSTILITIES AGAINST THE JEWS AND THE BRITISH ADMINISTRATION FOR SOME TIME.

THE LATEST JEWISH CASUALTY IN AN ARAB ATTACK CAME WHEN JOSEPH BEN-ISAAC SIMON, 26 YEARS OLD, WAS CRITICALLY WOUNDED IN A VOLLEY OF SHOTS FIRED ON A JEWISH BUS FIVE MILES FROM JERUSALEM.

THREE HUNDRED JEWISH WOMEN PETITIONED DISTRICT COMMISSIONER KEITH-ROACH FOR AMELIORATION OF CONDITIONS AT THE ACRE CONCENTRATION CAMP.

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