ARRIVAL AT CYPRUS

Chronicle (Levin), 25 September 1946, Page 5

ARRIVAL AT CYPRUS

Press Assn

Palmach Illegal Immigrants OIL TRAIN BLOWN UP

By Telegraph i

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•Received Wednesday, 10.15 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 24. The steamer Ocean Vigour arrived at -Cy-prus and landed the 6uu illegal Jewish immigrants transferred from the Palmach at Haiia, says Reuter's correspondent. The Jews said that forty Jews were injured in the clash on September 22 with the British boardmp' party ofl Haifa. The correspondent, who travelled on the Ocean Vigour, adds thai many of the immigrants were hysterical during the night they spent aboard the ship. They next mornjng handed back the khaki clothes ■giv.en to 'them and landed wearing the rags in which they were clotheci when they went aboard the Palmach. In Jerusalem today 200,000 residents stopped work during the funeral of Jechiel Schwartz, who was killed in the clash aboard the Palmach. Yesterday British troops fired warning shots into the air to disperse several thousand demonstrators marohing to the District .Gommissioner's office at Haifa to pre.sent a protest against the killing of Schwartz. Guards on public buildings have been doubled and barbed wire barricades erected. Armed troops took up security stations at street corners early this morning when it was learned that Jews were to hold a mass meeting of protest. Jewish shops were closed today as a sign of mourning for the man who was killed. Seven armed men wearing uniform dyns,mited an oil train from Haifa, -20 miles south of the city. The locomotive and two wagons were .w-recked. They shot dead an Arab policeman guarding a bridge.