Israeli engineers are new constructing a new road from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem which will run parallel to the so-called “Burma Road” instructed secretly prior to the first trace. The road will link Tel Aviv and Jerusalem ####h Jewish territory, it was announced today by the Israeli Government.
The “Burma Road” is not fit for winter use, while the new highway, which is expected to be ready for the rainy season beginning in October, will be paved and will solve the problems of Jerusalem-bound Jewish transport during the winter. Both ### will relieve the Jews from having to depend on the main Tel Aviv-Jerusalem #####y, which is in Arab-held territory, and which made it practically impossible for ####h convoys reach Jerusalem for weeks at a tine during the Arab-Jewish fighting.
Leaders of the Israeli Army are now reported to be asking for the closing of the Latrun-###rlleh road — which the government rheatened to do recently unless the### evened the train Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway and permitted the flew of water a Jerusalem through the Latrun pumping station.
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