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labourers employed in Palestine on military works who have been deported, with the exception of these repatriated under the official emergency arrangement described in paragraph 61 above. Table 2 gives the number of Jews who have been deported by the police during the past five years and their countries of origin. (These figures do not include (a) those transferred to Mauritius in December, 1940, and March, 1941, and subsequently permitted to enter Palestine as immigrants in 1945 and (b) terrorist suspects deported to Eritrea in October, 1944 and 1945).

Table 1.

PERSONS DEPORTED FROM PM,ESTINE (OTHER THAN JEWS).

Country of origin

1941

1942

1943

1944 1945

Total

Lebanon

811

711

819

895 1,174

4,410

Syria

755

703

841

792 1,083

4,174

Egypt

245

276

436

832 632

2,421

Trans-Jordan

221

152

273

185 220

1,051

Saudi Arabia

11

G

10

21 2G

73

Yemen

7

3

13

Iraq

10

Tunisia.

Aden

2

3

Turkey

3

France

Cyprus

Algeria.

2,060 1,853 2,384 2,726 3,142

12,165

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