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REPORTED OFFER AUSTRALIA NAMED JEWS PREFER PALESTINE (11.45 a.m.) PARIS. Jan. 28. The British have offered Jewish refugees in the Cyprus detenion camps visas and transport to Australia and other parts of the British Empire if they will agree to call off their attempts to enter Palestine, declared a 25-year-old officer of Haganah, the Jewish terrorist organisation, in an interview with the New York Herald-Tribune’s correspondent in Paris. The British internment camp commander, an Army major, it is stated, made the offer officially to Jewish leaders in the camps, warning them that they would otherwise remain at Cyprus for a long time.
The Haganah officer, who was arrested while assisting the illegal migration of Jewish refugees last September and was interned on Cyprus, told the correspondent that not one Jew had accepted the offer up to the time he escaped from the island late in September.
“After years in German concentration camps, when their only hope for the future was in Palestine, it is no wonder the Jews on Cyprus refused the bait,” the officer added. He is now en route to “certain European countries” to help organise more shiploads of illicit migrants to Palestine.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22241, 29 January 1947, Page 5
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