American citizen crew members of the refugees ship Ben Hocht, which was seized in Jerusalem on March 9, will be deported by the Palestine Government to the United States “by the first available means of transportation,” the State Department confirmed today. The Department has cabled American Cousul-General Robert Macatee to get the man aboard the 88 Marine Carp, an American ## scheduled to leave Palestine about March 30.
A Department spokesman said 18 of the man “##” to be ##
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