EVACUEES REACH CAIRO
Press Assn.
Palestine Cities Seething With ffiovement
SECUR1TY COMPOUNDS 0PEN
By T-elegraph
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Received Thursday, 11.15 a.m. LONDON, Feb. 5. Ten large Halifaxes landed at Cairo with 170 British women and children from Palostine, says Neuter's Cairo correspondent. They were taken in buses to British _iomes in the suburb of Maadi, /here the New Zealand troops were quartered during the war. The planes, each carrying seven^een evacuees, started a shuttle service at 8 a.m. local time, and it is expected that they will transpor& 500 by nightfall. The Associated Press' Jerusalem correspondent says the cities /hich the British families art evacuating are seething with movement as the British Government jfficials and remaining civilians .noved into the guarded compounds. The authorities dispossessed 1000 Jews in Jerusalem to make way for the security compounds. The authorities hiave ordered hotels and boarding houses not to accept guests unless they were certified by the Palestine Government.
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 February 1947, Page 5
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