The Mayor of Rabat, Morocco, and twelve municipal officials there are reported here today to have been arrested for sabotaging the orders issued by Gen. Giraud abolishing the Vichy anti-Jewish laws in North Africa.
London newspapers also report that a number of students in Algiers have been arrested for trying to organize a student demonstration against the abolition of the numerus clausus for Jews in the school system. Those arrested proved to be leaders of the fascist movement among the youth.
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