The Hebrew newspaper Haaretz complains today that not one Jewish worker has been employed in the preparatory diggings begun by the Irag Petroleum Co. for a new pipelime which will extend from Kirkuk, in Irag to Haifa.
In a move to ease the acute housing shortage, which has hit hardest at returning veterans, the British military authorities have agreed to transfer one of the camps in Palestine into quarters for demobilized soldiers.
The Palestine Government announced today that High Commissioner Lord Gort has left for England to secure medical treatment. Chief Secretary John V. M. Shaw will be Acting High Commissioner.
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