The repatriation of prisoners of war captured by Israeli forces in the Jerusalem area and by the Arab Legion is expected to be completed some time next week, it was learned here today.
Another group of 150 Jewish prisoners released from the Mafrak camp in Trans-Jordan today reached Jerusalem Most of the members of the group were taken prisoner when the Kfar Etzion colonies fell to the Legion in the earliest phase of the Palestine war, Neutral observers in Jerusalem consider this exchange of able-bodied prisoners by two belligerents unprecedented in modem military history.
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