Parents and wives of many of the 279 Jewish terrorist suspects who were deported to a British internment camp in Eritrea, today stormed the offices of the municipality and of the local Jewish community council, demanding urgent action to secure adequate food for the deportees. They displayed letters from the interned men declaring that they have proclaimed a hunger strike because of the poor food.
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