Deportation today faced 200 immigrants, many of them Jews, who entered South Africa after Feb. 1 on temporary permits. The Immigrants Selection Board, established under the Aliens Act which became effective Feb. 1, has received instructions from the Government to enforce its provisions with the utmost stringency.
In no instance, it was stated here, has the board thus far refused permanent permits to persons holding temporary ones.
Meanwhile the Nationalist press has been prominently displaying copies of a circular fostering immigration permits to Jews, attributed to a group known as the “Swaziland Settlement Corporation.”
Questioned on this in Parliament, Premier Hertzog said the Union had no jurisdiction over immigration to Swaziland but that the Imperial Government had been apprised of the Aliens Act.
It is understood here that the British Government will cooperate with the Union on any steps regarding immigration into Swaziland, which lies southeast of the Transvaal and is governed by a Resident Commissioner under the authority of the British High Commissioner for South Africa.
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