The campaign of the Palestine administration to round up all Jews in the country illegally, previously directed almost exclusively against Oriental Jews, veered in a new direction today when police and immigration officials took into custody a number of tourists from European countries, including Germany, who had remained in the country for a longer period than called for by their passports. All those arrested had found employment in the country and had been gainfully employed.
Those arrested for being in the country illegally included Alfred Drucker and his wife, who came here eight months ago from Vienna; Jacob Levinter and Rudolf Ringer, also of Vienna, who have been here for five months, and Max Fogel, of Leipzig. All have been imprisoned pending their deportation.
Isaac Gruenbaum, of the immigration department of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, today conferred with Albert M. Hyamson, director of the Palestine immigration department, regarding the Jewish immigration situation.
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