The recent report from Jerusalem that seventy Jews were being enlisted in the Palestine-Transjordanian frontier force is fictitious, a high government official today informed the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. At present there are no Jews included in this frontier force which operates chiefly in Transjordania.
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