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1.809 Interned Jews Escaped from Cyprus to Israel in Last Thirty Montes

February 10, 1949
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An Israeli camp leader claimed today that in 30 months 1,809 Jewish internees had escaped from the Caraolos and Xylotymbou comps on Cyprus and reached Palestine.

British military and civil authorities said that although no official figures were available, there appeared to be a “considerable discrepancy” between the numbers of incoming and outgoing Jews on Cyprus. It had been impossible to hold a proper roll-call in the camps since they were opened in 1946, they added.

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