Answering the appeal of the city of Tel Aviv, Palestine, for Jewish policemen, a number of Austrian Jews reported to the Palestine office in Vienna today expressing their readiness to proceed to Tel Aviv as volunteers to serve in the Jewish police force there.
The Palestine office in Vienna dispatched an inquiry to Jerusalem today asking if the Jewish volunteers from Vienna would be admitted to Palestine.
The appeal which the municipality of Tel Aviv issued to Jewish youth urging them to enter the police force, though emphasizing the fact that a policeman’s salary in Palestine is very low, has provoked great interest here, in view of the thousands of unemployed Jews who are seeking entrance to Palestine.
The Palestine office here is not optimistic as to the reply which may be received from Jerusalem with regard to the admission of Jewish volunteers from here for the Tel Aviv police force. Should the reply from Jerusalem be favorable, however, hundreds of Jewish youths would be ready to register for immediate service in the Palestine system.
The shortage of policemen in Palestine is explained by the fact that the majority of Jewish policemen there are quitting the force because the average unskilled worker in Palestine earns a better livelihood than a policeman.
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