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First 300 Immigrants to Be Returned to Palestine from Cyprus Expected to Arrive Today

December 2, 1946
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The first 300 deportees to be returned to Palestine from Cyprus as legal immigrants are expected to arrive tomorrow. According to advices from Cyprus, they were scheduled to leave there tonight.

Meanwhile, disembarkation at Cyprus of the nearly 4,000 refugees from the Knesseth Israel, who were deported on Friday, was continuing at Famagusta today, the reports said. It is expected to be completed early tomorrow. Several of the infants still on board are reported to be suffering from the effects of the gas bombs used by British troops when the refugees resisted removal from the Knesseth Israel.

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