Harried across the borders of three countries for four days after being cast adrift on an isolated Danube breakwater by the Nazis, 15 of a group of 51 Jews from the Austrian province of Burgenland found shelter last night on a French river boat.
The 15, who had spent Tuesday night in Pheasants Wood on the Hungarian frontier, and also other Jewish refugees, were given permission to board the boat at the frontier town of Rauka following diplomatic intervention. They were provided with food and blankets by Jews of Pressburg, Czechoslovakia.
The remaining 35, save one, of the group, who had been hounded back into Austria after being rescued from the breakwater, there to be imprisoned in the Kittsee barracks, were loaded on lorries and sent to an unknown destination, probably to be smuggled across a different part of the frontier.
Meanwhile, the Social Democratic Deputy Schultz of Pressburg and the Jewish Deputy Angelo Goldstein interviewed Foreign Minister Kamil Krofta regarding the refugees.
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