MORE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS NEAR PALESTINE

Chronicle (Levin), 15 August 1946, Page 5

MORE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS NEAR PALESTINE

DETENTION CAMPS RUSHED TO COMPLETION Receivecl Thursday, 10 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 14. Two more illegal immigrant ships are approaching Palestine waters and others will soon lcave European ports, said a Jewish Agency spokesman in Jerusalem. Meanwhile, in Cyprus, while sweating British soldiers are rushing the completion of detention carnps, the newspapers publish deeress empowcring the Governor to detain illegal immigrants. The decrees provide a penalty oi' a year's imprisonment for fugitives from camps, and also for persons aiding escape. Reuter's Famagusta correspondent reports that some interned Jewish men and women in grey clothing can be seen through barbed-wiro from a quarantine dislance of 300 feet. In Jerusalem to-day the staff and visitors evacuated the general post office building after a telephone warning that it was mined. Poliee and armoured cars were posted outside the building. A11 examination, however, revealed that there was no danger, and the staff returned to duty. Correspondents suggest that the telephone call was another instance of the "war of nerves." The Zionist inner circle in Jerus-

alem has decided to - convene a world congress somewhcre in Europe in November, and has fixed Occo'oer 14 as the last date for elections to the congress. A Paris message reports that four members of the Jerusalem Agency, Berl Locker, Dr. Nahurm Goldmann, Eliezer Kaplan and Dr. Stephen Wise, have left for London by air to confer with the president of the Jewish Agenoy, Dr. Chaim Weizmann. The agency executive meeting has been suspended while they are away, and will be resumed to-morrow when they return.