The Lithuanian Telegraphic Agency said in an official statement today that refugees who arrived recently at the frontier between Soviet Poland and Lithuania had been deported because Lithuania was physically unable to absorb new refugees.
Police were arresting illegal immigrants at various points in Lithuania, but their number was small, numbering tens, not hundreds, the statement said. The Agency added that no refugees who arrived in Lithuania before the demarcation of the Soviet-Lithuanian frontier had been deported.
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