A sensational report in today’ sissue of the Hebrew daily Doar Hayom to the effect that senior British officials in Palestine had been secretly instructed not to marry Palestine women turned out to be the result of a misconstruction of a standing government order.
In replying to inquiries by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency it was officially stated that the report was baseless. It appears that the Doar Hayom had misconstrued a standing order to Britishers joining the British section of the Palestine police who are obliged to agree not to bring their wives to Palestine nor to marry in Palestine because of the absence of adequate quarters for married officials.
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