The Governor of Tangier, in Spanish Morocco, yesterday summoned representatives of the Jewish community and informed them that the Jewish boys who were arrested and flogged as punishment for applying at the French consulate for work in liberated North Africa, will be "pardoned", the London Times reports today from Tangier.
The Governor’s action followed official representation by the British consul-general in Tangier. Twenty-five of the arrested Jewish boys were immediately released and the remainder are expected to be released today. Those of the arrested who were sent to Tetuan will be returned to their homes.
The Tangier authorities, it was learned here today, are refusing permission to Polish Jews to leave Spanish Moroccco. All applications for exit visas submitted by Polish Jews have been rejected. A number of Polish Jews are reported to be held in Tangier under supervision of the Spanish police because they are suspected of spreading pro-Allied propaganda. Polish representatives in Madrid have intervened with the government in bebalf of the Jews in Tangier, but have neither succeeded in securing their emigration nor the issuance of labor permits for them, which would enable them to earn a living as long as they must remain in Spanish Morocco.
Local Jewish communities in North Africa were reported today to be planning to send large groups of children to Palestine in view of the food shortage in Algeria and Tunisia. Jewish institutions in Palestine and leading Jews in North Africa have recently been in contact with each other.
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