The first of some 2,000 Jewish refugees who sailed on the Turkish freighter Sakharya for Palestine last february, entering the country illegally, have returned here.
The refugees were supplied with tickets and transit visas to their countries of origin by the British authorities. They declared that only women and children had been taken to the Sarafand and Athlit concentration camps in Palestine. The others, detained under threat of deportation, organized hunger strikes, the refugees said.
Refugees from Poland who are able to prove that they have immediate emigration possibilities will not be interned, it was announced today in connection with registration of refugees scheduled to begin June 2.
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