IMMIGRANTS ARRESTED
SHIP BEACHED NEAR HAIFA BRITISH TROOPS CORDON OFF AREA Rec. 11 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 1. The illegal immigrant ship carrying 700 Jews beached at Naharia, north of Haifa, to-day. The Associated Press Jerusalem correspondent says 200 waded ashore where airborne troops, who had cordoned the area, arrested them..
The Times Jerusalem correspondent says all 700 immigrants on board the beached ship got ashore. The British forces arrested only 12 and they are continuing the search for the remainder. A Haganah spokesman said that all the immigrants landed safely and that the 200 persons the British Army arrested were local residents who. assisted in the landing.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26659, 3 January 1948, Page 5
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