The authorities yesterday permitted disembarkation of 37 Jewish refugees with valid Uruguayan visas who arrived here on the Japanese steamship Montevideo Maru after a six-month journey via the Far East, but barred another 15 lacking documents, who proceeded to Argentina together with 140 passengers on the ship possessing Argentine visas.
The 15, whose difficulties arose from the fact they received Haitian visas containing mistakes or omissions, were not allowed to land at Paname for transshipment to Haiti. The Brazilian authorities barred them from landing in Bahia for a 30-day stay to put their documents in order. The refugees, many of them over 60 years of age, were said to be living on the verge of starvation on the Japanese ship.
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