Eight hundred and fifty-one visaless Jewish immigrants intercepted aboard the blockade runner “You Can’t Frighten Us” last night ## brought into Haifa this morning and transshipped to Cyprus this afternoon. ##ven women, one man and one child were hospitalized here and 18 of their relatives remained with them.
An official communique announced that the British boarding party met no assistance this morning and that the only casualty was a British sailor who fell ## fractured a thigh bone. Meyer Levin, American novelist and former Jewish ##legraphic Agency correspondent in Palestine, was among four newspapermen who made ## journey with the refugees, many of whom are from the Balkan countries. All four have been detained. Two #abies were born while the ship was at sea.Meanwhile, 300 Jewish orphans arrived here from Cyprus internment camps and will be taken to Jewish Agency hostels. Jewish passengers on the Rumanian vessel ##ansylvania who asked permission to visit relatives and friends in Haifa when the vessal halted here were forbidden to land.
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