The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-20
JERUSALEM IS
FIRMLY Held
AFTER ENTRY
But Rebels Control Wide
Segment Of Holy Land
Beyond 1t
HOPPING UP UNDER
| WAY; MANY ARRESTS

i JERUSALEM. Oct. 20. (UP),
British troops today rounded up
10 Arab prisoners in Old Jeru-
Slem after lifting two-day rebel
&ige by Storming gates of l6 CEN
tlvy walls yesterday. The prison.
:, all men, denied being rebels
Ia; were questioned, examined
shoulder bruises that might
lave been made by riflebutts and
seld for Identification.
4 Sporadic fighting continued in
he Moslem quarter where rebels
Ire making their last stand. The
III lof British occupation so far is
line Arabs killed and Is persons
Sounded, including three ,Butons-
More than 5000 soldiers IN the
jerusalem area are controlling
christian, Jewish and Armenian
ouarterS.
4 Military authorities feared that
4 any hour modernly armed reb-
Rls might make a mass attack
from the surrounding hills and
fesert where they are encamped.
1 Nearly 10000 residents last
Aignt cringed in their homes IN
erusalem's old city where British
hoops and police having stormed
he 18th century walls, wiped out
Dc guerilla resistance of Arab
febels in the Moslem quarters
3rOOked streets.
The British forces, including
Eilted Ladies From He'll of the
Black Watch and crack Cold
tream guards, smashed their way
<rough the old gates that stood
D Christ's time and shortly after
hwn seized the old city from the
rab rebels.
II was a repetition of Jerusa-
&m's history dating back thou
ands of years as the troops under
mmand of Major General K. H.
YCOnnor military governor,
rOke down rebel barbados at
damascus gate on the north and
\. Stephens gate to the east
pile Royal air force planes /
Eooped with machine-guns train
on the scattering Arabs.
y The fighting planes, modern f.
FrtraSt to the last siege of Jeru- /
Hem 80 years ago when Saladin /
entered the city and drove out !
% crusaders, flew over the
uat, crowded old city last night, .
&oppIng thousands Of leaflets in .
ree official languages-English, ,
Pablo and Hebrew. i
Inc frightened inhabitants
: huStianS, Armenians. Jews and .
osIemS-were instructed to re- /
pam IN their homes during the
nOpping up" operations.
There was scant possibility that
Pc Arabs would be driven out of .
e old city because they have
Aen refuge in the Mosque area.
British authorities, determined
to deSecrate the Moslem
primes, are reluctant to shell or
lTade the area.
Although the Christians, Mos
ms and Jews awaiting rescue
'nln the old city far outnum-
red the rebels they were help
S after complete breakdown
civil authority. The police had
gen routed, their station burned
5o sacked and snipers command
the streets.
The Arab revolt, a protest
SainSt the influx of Jews under
ne British mandate, has gained
lCh hold that the British gov
s".T1ent could claim control only
me Immediate regions around
lII,,ary headquarters.
me region controlled by the
ABS provisional government"
H'eOaS eastward from Jerusalem
crescent arc, beginning with
important towns of Nablus,
eoSoo and Nazareth; another
e area of South Palestine sur
o-aalng and including GAIA, a
Ion Of the Jerusalem-Jaffa
snWay which is Jerusalem's
49, -'e 10 the sea, and a large sec
- OF Rihlinnl RAALlal