The HIAS-ICA Emigration Association has transported to Genoa 24 of the 25 Jewish refugees who were among the passengers rescued at sea when the Italian liner Orazio burned. From Genoa the refugees will resume their journey to Latin American destinations on the next Italian steamer. The twenty-fifth refugee, a Madame Weiskopf, is in a Marseilles hospital.
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