A special transport of some 460 Jewish orphans will leave here for Marseille next Monday en route to Palestine, the Joint Disputation Committee, which arranged the transport, announced last night.
This is the last group of Jewish orphans left in the British zone of Germany. ?er an agreement between the British and the Jewish Agency immigration priority is ?ng given to orphans and young children. Their certificates will be deducted from regular immigration quota.
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