SHUTTLE SERVICE FOR PALESTINE EVACUEES

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5322, 7 February 1947, Page 5

SHUTTLE SERVICE FOR PALESTINE EVACUEES

LONDON, February 0. Teti Royal Air Force Halifaxes have hndeil at Cairn with 170 British women and children from Palestine, says Reuter's t'airo correspondent. They were taken in huses to British homes in the snburb of Maadi, where New Zealand tnmps were quartered during the war. The planes, each carrying 17 evacuees, started a shuttle service at X oYlock this irorning. It is expeeted that they will transport 500 hy nightfall. The Associated Press' Jerusalem wvrespoiiilent says that the cities from whieii British families are being fivaeuated are seething with move»ent as British Government officials and the mmaining civilians move into Suaivled cumpounds. The authorities dispossessed IC'OO kws in Jerusalem to ma'ke way for the "securily eompounds." The authorities iiave ordered hotels and iwmling-liouses not to accept guests unless tliev have heen certified by the Palestine Government. Xo Milk For Children Sixteen harassed women and their 15 tired children, who left Palestine «arly yesterday expeeting to be in Pt'itain in a few hours, were held up 'n Paris by the weather. They will hmvel hy boat-train to London toaprruw. The mothers, who were permitted b bring only two bottles of milk for their children, experienced great difficalty in obtaining food. They had no h'ench nioney and they searched Paris for fresh milk and fruit juice their children, all of whom are Under two years of age. The British Embassy finally proCUl'ed a small supply of tinnecl milk. * Norwegian air hostess, Freda Mag"us, guaranteed the meal bills for the A'onien. She said: "I think someone the British Emhassy should be °n hand to attend the women's needs."