SEA GANGSTERS MAKE RIPE DIVIDENDS
Received Wednesday, 8.45 p.m. LONiION, April 9. ' Sea gangsters a?e. taking ripe diviclends from the unreasoning urgepcy of iLegal immigrants who will get to Palestine at any costs, says the Times' naval correspondent. The gangsters, in return for passage money paid by pious sympathisers, transpprt the inrrnigrants in shipg which compare only with slavers of the xast ceutiuy. The immigrants are packed into insanitary ships , totally unfitted to carry them in any tolerahle degree of safety. for instance the 750 tons 70-year-old San I'elipo would imdoubteclly have sunk with her 1570 passengers if a slight sea had arisen before British warships reached her on February 9 and rescued her just off the Palestine coast. The crew had ahanfloned the passengers to their fate and saved their own skins. One of the most unsavoury features of a wholly unsavoury trade is the way tftese vessels are cleared in the normal way from western European ports.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 April 1947, Page 5
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