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Show ARAB REBELS DISLODGED BY TROOPS British Aircraft Drops Leaflets Telling People to Stay JERUSAL7M, Oct. 19 (U.R) British troops marched into the walled old city of Jerusalem and began dislodging dislodg-ing the Arab rebels who had held the city for two days and terrorized the motly population of 27.000. British aircraft dropped thousands thous-ands of leaflets in the three official of-ficial languages English, Arabic and Hebrew calling on the inhabitants in-habitants to remain in their homes during the scheduled military operations in the city. j .lews Aid British The British force., comprised 2,000 troops, inclujing a detachment detach-ment of the fo-.nous Coldstream guards, oik'. 4,000 Jewish super-numerar,' super-numerar,' police, who were con- solklated with the military under the state of semi-martial law which prevails throughout the country. The actual entry into the old city was accomplished with few casualties. British authorities announce! an-nounce! a Coldstream guardsman and a British constable were wounded and four Arabs killed. Commanded by Maj. Gen. O'-Conner, O'-Conner, the troops began reoc- cupying the entire city. They marched simultaneously through the golden gate, the zion gate and the Damascus gate in the direction di-rection of the mosque area. Proceed Slowly Fearing concealed land mines, the troops proceeded very slowly. Aircraft hovered over the city walls. The siege was in strange modern mod-ern contrast to those to which the ancient city has been subjected in centuries past. ' The British troops making their way into the old city found St. Stephens and the Damascus gates barricaded. They met disorganized disor-ganized Arab opposition in which two British constables and a Coldstream guardsman were wounded. An official announcement later said nine Arabs, including a woman, wo-man, were killed in street fighting. fight-ing. The British troops held the streets of the old city tonight and aviators' reported they saw wounded wound-ed rebels being alien into, the ed rebels being taken into the have been caretul to respect. . Officials said an R. A. F. corporal corp-oral and an aircraftsman were wounded while flying near the Jericho road. |