PURCHASED IN BALTIMORE
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT SHIPS NEW YORK. Aug. 3. Three local Zionist leaders said to-day that at least six ships used to transport Jews to Palestine were purchased in the Baltimore area with local funds. The ships, which were purchased through a corporation established for the purpose, were customarily registered under Panamanian or Honduran flags. Among the ships was the Exodus 1947, which was captured by British warships off Palestine while trying to land illegal immigrants. It had been purchased and repaired at a cost between 125,000 and 130,000 dollars. The nucleus of the crews serving on board the immigrant ships were American, but they were joined by other members of the Jewish organisation, Haganah, at French and Italian ports where immigrants were taken on board. They said that 600 to 800 Americans had enlisted in Haganah to serve on immigrant ships without pay.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26531, 5 August 1947, Page 5
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