JEWS KILLED.
EXPLOSION OK SHIP. HAIFA, Nov. 26. 1 A number of would-be illegal immigrants into Palestine who were captured recently were killed when the 11380-ton passenger steamer Patria, formerly French but now british-owned, capsized after an explosion in the harbour. Bhe hart 1771 migrants, mostly Jews, on lionrd 'or deportation to a British colony. Mort of the migrants swam j to safety. Police and soldiers dashed to the rescue and tugs and launches put out, while aeroplanes went up and reconnoitred. The cause of the explosion is not k'i«>'vn. The harbour has been cordoned
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 282, 27 November 1940, Page 8
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