Government officials, bankers, businessmen and employees in the Haifa district are flocking to join the Palestine Volunteer Force to be trained with anti-aircraft units, the press here reported today. The Volunteer Force will be trained and equipped by the army for cooperation with regular army units.
Announcing that there are already 137 commissioned Jewish officers and 80 Jewish medical officers, Moshe Shertok, head of the political department of the Jewish Agency, declared at a press conference here that the recent decision of the British Government to permit the formation of Jewish infantry battalions in Palestine followed prolonged Jewish negotiations. “Now that this decision has been reached, let us not be satisfied with what we have done hitherto with regard to recruitment. We have now to considerably enlarge our recruiting work,” he said.
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