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British Shoot Jewish Internees on Cyprus Visiting Neighboring Camp

January 19, 1948
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Following the shooting of two Jewish internees on ?us the British authorities have issued an order that all persons trying to escape the DP camps will be fired on by troops, according to reports received here.

The order added that attempts to visit between camps would be considered empts to escape. The two Jews, Emil Nussbaum and Jacob Haakon, were shot while ting friends at a neighboring camp.

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