A group of 250 Jewish emigrants who left Germany three weeks ago for Paraguay have found themselves sidetracked in a Buenos Aires prison, with the “no-man’s land” on the Argentine-Bolivian frontier possible as their ultimate destination, according to reports received here. The Jews sailed on the Italian liner Conte Grande with visas issued by the Paraguayan consulates in Berlin and Paris. At Montevideo, Uruguay, where the emigrants had to disembark for transit to Paraguay, their visas were declared invalid because they had not been issued directly by the home Government. The emigrants were then transported to Buenos Aires where they were imprisoned pending deportation to the Bolivian frontier.
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