Five members of the dissolved Palestine Arab High Committee, released from their exile on the Seychelles islands to attend the London Palestine conferences, arrived here today en route to Beirut and Cairo. cheering Arabs greeted them at the dock. The Arab leaders were banished to the islands in October, 1937.
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