Displaced Jews in four camps in Northern Italy —##cola Cadorna, Cremona, Grigliasco and Rivoli — today Joined in a hunger strike proclaimed yesterday fey Jewish DPs in a refugee center near Milan maintained by the International Refugee Organization.
The strike vas called in protest against the cancellation “by the I.B.O. of the ration books of 500 Jewish refugees as punishment for their refusal to comply with an order to move from the center to another I.R.O. camp.
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