AID FOR SHIPWRECKED JEWS
STORY OF R.A.F. FLIGHT Received Tuesday, 12.10 p.m. JERUSALEM, Dec. 9. The R.A.F. planes returned to Jerusalem after dropping urgently needed supplies to the refugees shipwyecked • on the island of Syrina. Flight Lieutenant Allan Ross, leader of the Halifaxes which dropped five tons of supplies, told Reuter's .Jerusalem correspondent' "We saw several hundred people huddled in a valley. They lit recognition fires and waved excitedly as we ran in at 250 feet. Wc dropped the containers in the middle of the valley." Ross described Syrina as barren and treeless. It is two and a-half miles long and oue mile wide, with few houses. There was no sign of the ship. He said the planes flew through the worst flying weather -he had known. A Jewish Agency spokesman expresscd the apprcciation cf 11: Jcwi.h population in Palestine foi the help given their compatriots by Jie Eri'ish. Reuter's Athens . corresponden! reports that the Greek Navy has dispatched two destroyers to aid the Jews marooned on Syrina Island, and also a tank landing Iship carrying food and medical supplies.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 December 1946, Page 5
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