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Exodus Refugees Will Be Ousted from Present Camps if They Balk at Transfer to New Site

October 21, 1947
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The 4,400 Exodus refugees have been told at they will be forcibly expelled from the camps they are now occupying by the end this month, unless they agree to be transforrod to other installations designated the British occupation authorities.

British zone refugee leaders are meeting tonight with representatives of the exodus group to consider the British ultimatum. The heads of the refugee organization have been told by the authorities that if they do not send a commission to interact the new camps, which are near Emden and Wilhelmshaven, former German naval ##ses, the Exodus deportees will be summarily outed from the Poppendorf and Am Stau##mps within ten days. The deportees have indicated on several occasions that they not wish to be transferred to any place but Palestine.

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