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"Learn a parable of the fig tree" (Matt. 24: 32).
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Extract from the News Chronicle of 8th December, 1933.
"SHIP FLIES FLAG OF PALESTINE; FIRST FOR 2,000 YEARS.
SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday.
The trading schooner Emanuel, which arrived at Southampton to-day to discharge a
grain cargo, comprises the entire mercantile marine of Palestine.
Every member of her crew is a Jew.
Purchased by her commander, Capt. A. Grevnow, in Denmark, nearly three months
ago, the Emanuel will engage in coastwise trade in Palestine.
Capt. Grevnow said to-day: `It is the first time for two thousand years that a vessel
with an all-Jewish crew and flying the Palestine flag has sailed the seas'."