Reports that Italian liners would no longer carry passengers to Palestine because they were being pressed into service to transport Italian troops to Ethiopia were denied today by officials of the Lloyd Triestino Line.
Three Italian steamers; the Jerusalem, the Galilea and the Palestine, are continuing the Trieste to Haifa service, officials said.
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