SMUGGLERS’ DOVE
JEWS ESCAPING THROUGH FRANCE
BRITAIN PROTESTS TO FRENCH GOVERNMENT
(Rec 11.80 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 4. Britain has protested to the French Government against the use of a small smugglers’ cove—the Eagle’s Beak—on the outskirts of Laciotat, 25 miles east of Marseilles, from which several illegal Jewish immigrant ships are believed to have sailed recently for Palestine, soys the ‘ Daily Mail’s ’ Jerusalem correspondent The French police are reported to have raided the cove a few months ago and to have discovered many boxes of arms bearing Hebrew inscriptions, indicating that arms are also being shipped from the cove to Palestine. The Allies used the Eaglefs Beak during the war to smugglq out notable personalities from occupied Europe to Africa.
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Evening Star, Issue 25941, 5 November 1946, Page 7
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120SMUGGLERS’ DOVE Evening Star, Issue 25941, 5 November 1946, Page 7
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