The Palestine Office which the World Zionist Executive has set up here to distribute immigration certificates to Jews desiring to go to Palestine, announced today that it will accept no further applications for such certificates.
The announcement is due to the fact that 600 new applications for the visas were received by the office here during the week, as soon as it became known that the government of Palestine had granted 7,600 immigration certificates under the new labor schedule for the next six months. These new applications are in addition to the thousands of old applications which the office has been unable to satisfy.
APPLICANTS RESTIVE
The dissatisfaction with the system of the distribution of immigration certificates for Palestine is growing here daily. In certain Greek cities this dissatisfaction has taken the form of violent invasion of the Palestine Office. The members of the office were threatened at the point of guns by applicants, demanding visas for Palestine.
The demands for the certificates are not expectted to diminish, since the economic position of the Jews in Greece is growing worse.
A new anti-Semitic weekly, Ephodos, made its appearance today. Other anti-Semitic publications are still under a government ban and have ceased appearing since the recent civil war in Greece.
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