Three hundred and fifteen DP’s from Austria, mainly ?wish garment workers and their families, and including 40 orphans whose parents ?rished in concentration camps, will sail for Canada on Jan. 22 aboard the General ?urges.
Another group of 504 immigrants will sail for Rio de Janeiro on Jan. 20. Seventy-eight percent of the latter group are agricultural workers and the remainder ?re artisans.
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