The Czech-Polish border was reopened last night after having been closed for three days. Additional trains have been placed on the Nachod-Beatislava run to speed movement of the refugees. Earlier, the Pregao radio had said that the frontier had been closed following a British request.
Estimating that about 3,000 Jews daily were crossing the border from Poland into Czechoslovakia en route to Palestine, the broadcast said: “The mass movement of Jews across the frontier followed a decision of the Polish Zionist Organization that all Jews should leave Poland by Oct. 31, as a protest against the attitude of the Polish population towards the Jews.”
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