The British Government has just issued 707 Palestine immigration certificates for use of boys and girls between the ages of 15 and 17, it was announced today by Mrs. David B. Greenberg, national Youth Alimah chairman of Hadassah. Some of the certificates will be used by children among the Burgenland (Austria) refugees who lived for 113 days on a tug in the Danube river before being permitted to land in Czechoslovakia. The certificates are part of a special immigration schedule for students which expires Sept. 30.
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