Chicago Tribune · 6 May 1947
CP-1947-047
Manhunt Is On For Palestine Jail Fugitives
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S MANHUNT IS ON Widespread Manhunt in Palestine FOR PALESTINE (Story in adjoining column) Mediterranean Sea CENTER OF an LEBANON MANHUNT JAIL FUGITIVES SCENE OF PRISON BREAK be S DADAS HULE an SALIHA• NE EILON EZ ZIB• pr TARSHIHA Police Set Traps for 180 EL KABRI ve •SUHMATA NAHARIYA'• ca SYRIA SAFAD• • YIRKA Still at Large 5 MIL ER RAME ACRE • JERUSALEM, May 5 (A)-Palestine EL BIRWA • SHA'AB TELL HUMO blocks police manned road and combed the countryside tonight all HAIFA PIRYAT MOTZKIN the way from Acre eastward to the MIGDAL • SIRYAT HAIYIN green plains where the river Jordan TIBERIAS. in search of more than 180 Hows, 1 SAFFURYE CARI ET TIRA• convicts reported still at large from explosion-shattered Acre prison.
KINNERET • NAZARETH British soldiers were withdrawn *ATLIT DEG at nightfall from the gigantic man- TROOPS HUNT hunt, covering the northern third TRANS ESCAPED CONVICTS PALESTIN
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"Manhunt Is On For Palestine Jail Fugitives," Chicago Tribune, 6 May 1947. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1947-047. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1947-047
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