Sixteen hundred Polish refugees, many of them Jews, are stranded in the Japanese port of Kobe and will not be permitted to remain in Japan, the Kobe Jewish community today informed Ignacy Schwartzbart, member of the Polish National Council here, urging that efforts be made to enable the refugees to emigrate, possibly to British dominions and colonies.
The Jewish refugees include physicians, lawyers, rabbis, theological students, engineers and merchants. Schwartzbart is continuing intervention with the Polish Government in behalf of the refugees. Visas to Burma have already been granted for 150 of them and 50 have arrived there.
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