The Polish authorities were understood today to have intervened energetically and successfully with Germany to prevent reported new wholesale deportations of polish Jews. frontier stations have not yet announced arrival of deportees, although reports yesterday said that transports carrying exiles were moving toward the polish border. if carried out, the renewed expulsions would aggravate the problem of the 12,000 Polish Jews expelled from the Reich two weeks ago, several thousand of whom were still interned at the border town of Zbonszyn.
These refugees, 1,000 of whom are ill, have telegraphed an appeal for mercy to President Ignace moscicki. describing their plight and telling of the sufferings of the children aged and sick, the refugees asked permission for the children to proceed to the interior, permission for others to emigrate and intercession with Germany for return of their property.
Relief was being provided for the deportees by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and Polish-Jewish relief organizations. A home was established for 120 children, and also a 50-bed hospital and dispensary. despite the relief measures, however, despair was rising among the exiles. reports that typhus had broken out among them were officially denied.
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