Nearly 800 of over 1,100 visaless Jewish immigrants intercepted aboard two blockade runners and brought into Haifa just after dawn this morning were tonight en route to Cyprus. The remaining four hundred will stay aboard their ship until the British provide more shipping to remove them to the island.
The two vessels, the Shivat Zion (Return to Zion) and the Fourteen Heroes (named in honor of 14 members of Hanganah who died in a premature blast last year)
Passengers aboard neither ship offered resistance to boarding parties, but on a former a number of Jews refused to be transshipped despite the fact that they were ## that the sooner they disembarked the sooner they would be sent to Cyprus. Under ## present immigration quotas assigned to the internees, it will take this group out two years to enter Palestine, it was officially announced.
Transshipped from the Shivat Zion were 190 men, 81 women and 127 children, ## addition to two stretcher cases. Of the Fourteen Heroes’ 800 passengers, 398 were transshipped. A total of eleven men and women from both ships were hospitalized and of their relatives remained in Palestine pending their recovery.
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