To Leave Palestine Before large! Date?
JERUSALEM, Sun. (11.30 a.m.)—The commander of the British land forces in the Middle East (General Sir John Crocker) conferred at the week-end with the High Commissioner (General Sir Alan Cunningham), with the object, it is believed, of completing the British evacuation of Palestine before the target date of August 1. i It is thought that the widespread fighting which is feared after the termination of the British mandate on May 15 may hamper the later stages of the evacuation unless it is speeded up.
Ten Arabs and six Jews were killed in street fighting today in the village of Faluj, north-east of Gaza. Six Jews ware killed in a skirmish in the Negeb area after a Jewish convoy broke through an Arab roadblock.
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Northern Advocate, 15 March 1948, Page 3
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