The deportation of 50 Palestinian Jews yesterday to the British colony of Kenya, in Africa, does not presage a new policy of mass transfer of political prisoners on the part of the Palestine Government, an informed source at the Colonial Office today told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Pointing out that the matter is a purely local problem and does not involve the Colonial Office, the source said he believed that the deportations were merely an extension of the previous policy of exiling “tough” prisoners to Eritrea detention camps, which have since been closed.
It was reported from Nairobi, Kenya, that the planes carrying the 50 Jews landed safely today and that the prisoners were then transported in trucks to the Gilgil camp, 80 miles away.
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