In connection with the Palestine Government’s announcement that the current immigration schedule was being omitted because of unemployment and unsatisfactory absorptive capacity, the Jewish Agency stated today that unemployment had not increased in the last three years and simultaneously the country had absorbed more than 20,000 immigrants.
Jewish mixed farming suffered a shortage of hands, while on the other hand it was impossible to use unemployed for mixed farming, the statement said. It added that the Agency had asked for a certain number of certificates for laborers and for Youth Aliyah and expressed regret that the Government did not prescribe a quota.
A Palestinian Jew serving with the Royal Air Force somewhere in the western desert has invented important aviation improvements and the military authorities have ordered that he be sent to London to submit his work to the Air Ministry, it was reported today. The newspaper Davar said the man, whose name cannot be given, is 24 years old and was born in Petach Tikvah.
The King’s Gallantry Medal has been awarded posthumously to the British constable, Horace Rutland, who lost his life in rescuing passengers of the refugee ship S.S. Patria, which sank in Haifa harbor after an explosion last Nov. 25.
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