BRITISH CLOSE HAIFA TO AID EVACUATION
(l.i a.m.) LONDON, May 25. Seven hundred British troops and 360 Palestine police boarded the troopship Cheshire at Haifa, leaving only 400 police volunteers in Palestine to help to supervise the final withdrawal. Three ships in the port of Haifa are taking on machinery, navy cranes, tractors and other vehicles. Haifa’s heap of gun barrels awaiting destruction is growing bigger daily. The British have closed the port of Haifa to incoming passenger traffic to avoid interference with the evacuation.
An Israel spokesman said the Jews would protest to the British. Since the Palestine mandate ended 1150 Jews have entered Palestine through Haifa under quotas granted to the Jewish Agency before the mandate ended.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22647, 26 May 1948, Page 5
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