The Palestine Government announced tonight a quota of 920 immigrants for April, including 790 Jews, not counting wives and minor children. British consuls abroad will accept no more applications for immigration to Palestine, except from dependents of Palestine residents, it was announced, since the applications on hand before April 1 under most categories of immigrants exceed the quotas.
The new immigration schedule was received with bitterness in Zionist circles, which declared it showed that the British Government was fulfilling Arab demands. Particular resentment was expressed at the low quota for Jewish laborers, which totals 110.
The one-month quota — apparently a stop-gap schedule since the immigration figure is usually set for six months — was announced in a special edition of the official Palestine Gazette which said the British Government would take into account the April immigrants when considering future immigration in the light of the recent Palestine conference in London. The total quota and quotas in the various categories were set by High Commissioner Sir Harold A. MacMichael, acting under powers to prescribe quotas and sub-quotas which were vested in him by an amendment to the Immigration Ordinance announced on April 5. The quotas follow:
The maintenance of the religious functionaries must be assured. Their applications can be submitted only through the Palestine Chief Rabbinate or the Agudath Israel, in the case of Jews. The maintenance of the students must also be assured.
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