The internment camps for Jewish refugees on Cyprus are so overcrowded that hundreds of persons are without beds and compelled to sleep on the bare ground, it was reported here today.
The situation will be even worse tomorrow when nearly 400 immigrants who arrived in Palestine yesterday aboard the Yehuda Halevi are disembarked at Famagusta from the Ocean Vigor which is now en route to Cyprus. The Halevi passengers are mainly Sephardic Jews from North Africa.
The Stern Group today informed the press that it has sent a letter to the Chief ##inate, warning them that if they do not persuade a young Sephardic boy named ##hak Fraji to discontinue acting as an informer for the government, he will be ##quidated.” The Sternists said that they have taken no action against Fraji up to ## because of his extreme youth and the fact that he is the only son of a blind ##ther.Voicing the generally favorable Arab reaction to the address of Foreign Minister ##vin at Margate, Dr. Hussein Khalidi, secretary of the Palestine Arab Higher Executive, said last night that “we agree with Mr. Bevin that the issue has become bitter ##d feeling between Jew and Arab is so tense and high that it may lead to tragedy and ##tastrophe.” He lauded Bevin’s “frankness” in describing the situation in Palestine. ##wish reaction to Bevin’s remarks was almost unanimously unfavorable.
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