Several Polish soldiers in Palestine have been sentenced to prison by British authorities for taking part in anti-Jewish disturbances, it is reported today by the Sunday newspaper Reynolds News.
The paper adds that the offending troops were jailed despite protests by Polish military authorities. Anti-Semitic pamphlets, believed to be printed by Polish circles in London, are being widely circulated among Polish units in the Middle East, the report states.
(A New York Times correspondent in Moscow, who was in Iran when large units of Polish troops and civilians arrived there from Russia, writes today that Jewish civilians were segregated in a “ghetto” in the least desirable section of the refugee camp administered by the Polish authorities. The correspondent also charges that the Pales exerted pressure on the Iraqi Government to refuse passage to 300 Polish-Jewish refugee children who wished to leave Teheran for Palestine.)
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