Colonial Minister Lord Cranborne, speaking in the House of Lords today announced the landing in Palestine of eighteen Jewish refugees from Rumania on board the cutter Michai. They are now in a detention camp “in accordance with our usual custom,” he stated. The vessel was denied permission to land its passengers at Istanbul last month because the refugees did not possess Palestine visas.
Queried as to the twelve passengers from another Rumanian cutter, the Euexenia, who were landed at Cesme, near Smyrna, when their ship foundered last month, the Colonial Minister said that “there can be no question of their being allowed to enter Palestine since that would be contrary to our declared policy, but the whole matter of their disposal is under consideration.”
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