The State Journal-Register · Springfield, Illinois · 23 April 1948

CP-1948-027

Arabs Forced To Evacuate Haifa

International News Service, Haifa

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“Haife, 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 London Daily Mail said the Arab decision amounted to a ‘surrender by evacuation.’) The Arabs were reported to have agreed to yield their arms to the Jews before leaving Haifa—the richest plum in the current Arab-Jewish war.

(A Reuters dispatch said a breakdown of truce negotiations brought renewal of Jewish attacks on Haifa’s Arabs which had been suspended Thursday after an all-out offensive began Wednesday.) (The Reuters dispatch added that Arab troops were on the march to aid the Haifa Arabs.)

A Syrian commander in Haifa left the city ‘to obtain reinforcements’ but was forced to return at 6 p. m. (Haifa time) last night. Haifa has been virtually encircled by victorious Jews who seized control of most of the strategic points in the big port, rail and oil hub. Arab resistance died down upon his return and the mass Arab evacuation swung into full gear.

An Arab spokesman declared: ‘We will not accept the Jewish truce terms. We would rather leave Haifa.’”

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A different news agency on the same day. Forced, and evacuate, in one headline — and in the last paragraph an Arab spokesman saying they would rather leave. “Haife” is the paper’s.

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The same copy, in 2 other papers

• Jewish Forces Win Control of Haifa; Arabs LeavingLubbock Avalanche-JournalLubbock, Texas23 April 1948CP-1948-019
• 60,000 Arabs Forced Out of Haifa As Jews Win Military ControlThe Idaho StatesmanBoise, Idaho23 April 1948CP-1948-024

Their text and this one are nearly identical. Found by comparing transcriptions, not by reading them side by side, so this establishes that the text overlaps and not that these papers ran the same dispatch. How this was done.