Nearly 1,000 Jewish refugees from Poland, Austria and Hungary sailed yesterday from Marseilles for resettlement in Australia.
Some 390 Jews were aboard the vessel when it arrived in Marseilles from Amsterdam. An additional 565 who had arrived on a special train earlier during the day boarded the Dutch ship, Johan De Witt. Over 450 of the immigrants are being sponsored by HIAS which expects about 2,000 immigrants to leave Europe this month.
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