Armed British troope were today rushed to the British ? vessei Ocean Vigor in Femagusta harbor where some 700 Jews refused to dis?, it was reported here from Cyprus.
A large number of the passagers insist that they are Palestinian Jews who were rounded up with the immigrants who arrived on the blookade runner Sanarana Wedneday. The Sanara was ? near Gaza and a large number of its passangers swarmed over the side and scattered. About 600 Jews were eventually seized by British troope, among them a number of Palestinian Jews, some of whom were weeded out before the remainder were deported.
Three Jewish inte?, captured a week ago after an unsuccessful attempt to escap from Kylotymbou camp on the loland, were today sentenced to one month’s immigrant. The three were said to be planning to sail to Palestine. Two internses at the? camp and two at the Caraclos camp, near Famagusia, caught fleeing yesterday were arrested.
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