(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Tel Aviv, the first modern Jewish city in Palestine, with a population of over 30,000, frequently mentioned as the point slated to become the railway junction will not be chosen for this purpose.
The Palestine government in an official communication to the Jaffa chamber of commerce declared that the transfer of the central station from Ludd to Tel Aviv had been indefinitely postponed. The commercial and industrial population of Tel Aviv laid great hopes in the proposed transfer.
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