Belgian repatriation authorities are authorired to bring back to this country all deportees who held “yellow” foreign identification cards valid on May 10, 1940, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency was told today by Chief Inspector Goffin of the Police and Security Department. The “yellow cards”were issued to permanent non-Belgian residents and were automatically renewed for successive two-year periods.
Holders of “white cards” which were good for six months, and which were issued to temporary residents, will also be re-admitted, the inspector said, but only after investigation by the Police and Security Department. The situation of German Jews now residing in belgium has improved somewhat in recent weeks. It has been anounced that their identification cards will shortly be stamped with the words ” Non-Enemy,” thus absolving them from reporting every month to the police.
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