‘Fed Up’ With Murder Of British Soldiers

Northern Advocate, 7 November 1946, Page 5

‘Fed Up’ With Murder Of British Soldiers

tKec. 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 6. Lieutenant-General Barker, GOC Palestine, after meeting his successor, General MacMillan, during a 10-day Jeave in Britain, departed tor Cairo by air.

He told the Evening Standard: “I am fed up with having British soldiers murdered, but at present there is little that can be done about it.

“Wo can hit back, but may get the wrong people. I am having'some Palestine street wire removed before Christmas in an attempt to get everything back to normal.” Britain has asked France to move the displaced persons’ camp for Jews inland from the Mediterranean coast, says the Paris correspondent of the Associated Press.

A British Embassy spokesman, announcing the request, said the camp was midway between Marseilles and Toulon, near the small port of La Ciotat. Britain had information that several ships loaded at La Ciotat Jews for illegal immigration to Palestine. The spokesman added that France customarily was cooperative in such situations. IMMIGRATION CRUX “ft is very difficult to envisage a return to normal relations between the Palestine Government and the Jewish Agency while the present immigration regime remains,” said Moshe Shertok, the head of the Agency’s political department, upon his release. He added that the crux of the whole matter remained freedom of Jewish immigration to Palestine and the establishment of Jews as a nation in “their own country.”