Sixteen hundred Jewish refugees from the ##ockade runner Theodor Herzl were transshipped to Cyprus yesterday, the Palestine government officially announced today as reports were circulating here that another ##migrant ship had been intercepted and was being towed to Haifa.Because of the stringent curfew in effect, it was impossible to confirm the reports. The government announcement listed 848 men, 616 women and 136 children as ##ving been deported. It also stated that six British sailors received minor in##ries in battling their way aboard the Herzl.
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