The harbor being constructed at Tel Aviv is to remain a private enterprise, officials of that all-Jewish city were informed today by High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope.
Sir Arthur’s decision, disclosed after correspondence on the matter with Colonial Secretary William Ormsby-Gore, ends hopes of Government aid in the project, undertaken last Summer when Arab disorders made inaccessible the neighboring port of Jaffa.
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