A flat denial of reports emanating from London that Communist agents infiltrated among the 15,000 visaless Jewish refugees the sailed for Palestine from Rumania and Bulgaria on the blockade runners Pan York and Pan Crescent was issued here today by Sir Godfrey Collins, commissioner for the camps in which intercepted Jewish refugees are interned.
There were no indications that there were any Communist agents among the immigrants the British Commissioner said, according to a Reuter’s dispatch. He also denied that Communist literature and identity papers wore found in the two ships which were escorted to Cyprus Jan. 1, Reuter’s added.
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