Official circles today described as premature reports in London newspapers that the entire personnel of the First Division, comprising 15,000 effectives, will be sent to Palestine.
The War Office informed the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that a decision on the number of troops to be dispatched has not yet been reached.
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