The British Government has not yet reached a decision on the fate of some 700 Rumanian Jewish refugees who reached Palestine on a small boat and face deportation as illegal immigrants, it was indicated today.
Colonial Undersecretary George H. Hall stated in Commons that he was not yet in a position to add to his statement of March 19 in which he said that except for a few veteran Zionists no Rumanian Jewish refugees would be admitted to Palestine who had not received immigration certificates before Rumania was declared enemy occupied territory.
Col. Josiah Wedgwood, Laborite, had asked for information regarding the 700 refugees from pogroms in Rumania.
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