The Patriot-News · Harrisburg, Pennsylvania · 23 April 1948
CP-1948-026
Jewish Forces In Control of Haifa
Transcribed from the clipping
“Haifa, April 23 (Friday) (INS).—Jewish forces won complete military control of Haifa last night and today 60,000 Arabs began a mass evacuation from the great port city on Palestine’s northwest coast. The Arab spurned Jewish truce terms starting their exodus.”
Context added by this archive
The same International News Service lead as the Idaho Statesman (CP-1948-024), cut to two sentences. The second one is the paper’s own compression: where the fuller printing quotes a spokesman refusing the terms, this reads “The Arab spurned Jewish truce terms starting their exodus” — a reason given in the paper’s voice instead of the man’s.
“The Arab” singular against “their” plural is the paper’s own setting.
Cite this clipping
"Jewish Forces In Control of Haifa," The Patriot-News, 23 April 1948, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1948-026. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1948-026
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