Eliahu Dobkin, head of the immigration department of the Jewish Agency, today announced that the 1,300 Jews who were sent by British authorities from Palestine to the island of Mauritius because they were illegal immigrants are expected to return to Palestine next month under an arrangement between the Jewish Agency and the Palestine Government.
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