IMMIGRANT SHIPS INTERCEPTED
1100 JEWS ABOARD PASSENGERS TO BE SENT TO CYPRUS (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, July 27. It is officially announced in Jerusalem that two ships carrying about 1100 illegal immigrants are expected to arrive at Haifa before midday tomorrow.
The refugees will be taken to Cyprus, although the Government has
reserved its rights regarding the destination of future deportations. A message from Paris says that the Prefecture of the Rhone Department has announced that the 4500 Jewish refugees from the President Warfield, who are in three British transports off the south French coast, will be disembarked 30 miles south-east of Marseilles tomorrow morning. The French Government has given an undertaking to feed the refugees. Rumours persist that many of them are ill. The French Government, according to reports from Paris, has decided to grant a sanctuary to any of the 4500 who land in France, but not to compel any to disembark. The first post-war Jewish liner, the Kedmah, with practically an all-Jew-ish crew, has arrived at Tel Aviv from London with 195 legal Jewish migrants and other travellers. The ship will soon run regularly between Haifa and Marseilles.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25248, 29 July 1947, Page 7
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