MOVED TO CYPRUS
1457 ILLEGAL MIGRANTS CAUGHT OFF PALESTINE (10 a m 1 JERUSALEM, May 25. The Liberty ship Runnymcde Park sailed for Cyprus with 1457 Jewish refugees who arrived in Palestine aboard the Jewish illegal immigrant ship Mordey Hagetaoth. which is a three-masted Italian schooner. _ The Royal Navy intercepted it when it was attempting to run ashore on a beach south of Palestine and escorted it to Haifa. This was Ihe thirty-fifth attempt lo run the British blockade with illegal human cargo since illegal immigration was intensified in November. 194 a. A militarv court sentenced to life imprisonmen two Arabs. Mahmoud lb rahim Shaer and Mohammed Ilassan Sheer for carrying 50 land mines in a lorry near Jerusalem. The lony dnvei was acquitted.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22339, 26 May 1947, Page 3
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