FORCEFUL PROTEST
SEIZURE OF AMERICAN CITIZENS INCIDENT AT BEIRUT WASHINGTON, May 21 The United States State Department announced to-day that the United States was lodging a forceful protest with the Lebanese Government demanding the immediate release of 40 Americans seized from the American ship Marine Carp at Beirut, and that the United States intended warning other Arab States not to attempt similar seizures of Americans en route to Palestine merely because they were Jews. , , , The Lebanese Government explained that it had taken the passengers from the ship because they were Zionists en route to Israel “to help disturb the peace in the Holy Land.” [An earlier message said that the Lebanese authorities took of! at pistol point 69 passengers from the ship Marine Carp when it called at Beirut yesterday. A Lebanese Government communique said the Marine Carp carried 69 Zionists in possession of arms and radio transmitters, and they were consequently imprisoned.]
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26779, 24 May 1948, Page 5
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