WITHDRAWAL SIGNS
j CLOSED j TRANSFER OF BRITONS | ONLY 40 TO REMAIN ni.lsa.rn.) JERUSALEM April 14 The Palestine Government closed down its Motor Traffic Department today. The Post Office Department will begin to close its rural offices tomorrow and expects to close the main city post offices on May 5. It is announced that it is hoped to continue the airmail and telegraph service until May 15 when Britain surrenders the mandate. A British source said that by the end of April only 40 British civil servants would remain in Palestine. Orthodox Jewry has issued a statement that Haganah men using rifle butts broke up a "peace in Palestine' demonstration by several thousand Orthodox Jews who oppose political Zionism
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22612, 15 April 1948, Page 5
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119WITHDRAWAL SIGNS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22612, 15 April 1948, Page 5
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