Non-cooperation with the government, which is scheduled to begin monday, will probably be postponed in order not to prejudice current Jewish Agency negotiations in London, according to an informed source. However, there has been no official indication that a postponement is contemplated.
Palestine police were tonight searching for an estimated 200 visaless Jews who are reported to have slipped ashore last night from a small sailing vessel at a point near Tel Aviv.
An announcement by the Haganah, which termed the landing “Operation Freedom,” said that the immigrants were put ashore on the beach and immediately dispersed. When the disembarkation was almost completed searchlights began sweeping the coastline, but when police arrived all had disappeared.
Fourteen-hundred immigrants aboard the Caf Gimmel and the Katriel Jaffa, which arrived in Haifa this week, were reported to be on a hunger strike in protest against their imminent deportation to Cyprus. Two young Jews who are believed to have swum ashore from the Caf Gimmel were captured near Haifa today. They were wearing bathing suits when apprehended
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