Numbers of Jewish refugees from Poland, both troops and civilians, who crossed the frontier after the advance of the Soviet troops, have been received sympathetically by the Lithuanian authorities. They have been put up in summer homes and villas in the vicinity of Kaunas and provincial towns and have been provided with food.
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