Four Jewish immigrants, arrested for illegal entry into Palestine, yesterday ceased their hunger strike, which had lasted six days. Two are continuing the strike in the jail, claiming that they cannot be deported from Palestine because they come from Soviet Russia, from where they escaped.
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