The hunger strike called by the occupants of the Cyprus camps, including 500 children, was continuing today. A government communique said “the situation is quiet. The hunger strike continues.” Correspondents who asked permission to enter the camps were told “not today.”
Goldie Meirson, chief of the political department of the Jerusalem section of the Jewish Agency, announced that she has received a cable from an emergency committee representing the refugees in which they declare that the “situation in the camps is explosive” and that “there is no contact with the British who are not allowed to enter the camp.” The internees are demanding the full April immigration quota and punishment of the troops who fired on a peaceful demonstration Friday, killing one ?men and wounding several others.
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