The first shipment of goods from Germany under the terms of the German reparations pact arrived at the Israeli port of Jaffa this week-end. The vessel, originally scheduled to dock at Haifa, was diverted to Jaffa by the authorities to foil a planned demonstration by the Herut Party, right-wing group which has opposed dealing with the Germans from the first.
The cargo aboard the Israeli vessel, the S. S. Ethrog, consisted of 250 tons of caustic soda and iron shipped from Hamburg. Three hundred port laborers immediately began unloading the vessel. A heavy police guard was maintained on the sea about the ship and on the dock.
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