A tiny 400-ton vessel sailed from Le Havre today with 600 Jewish refugees aboard reportedly bound for Palestine.
The vessel, “Ulna,” is believed to be the same one which cleared a Swedich port last week ostacsibly bound for Cuba where its passengers, survivors of Nazi concentration camps, were to be resettled.
The harbor master at Le Havre yesterday refused to give the vesrel clearance, asserting that security measures aboard ship were inadequate, but later revered his decision. The Ulna’s captain said that he had put into the French port in order to replenish his supplies of food, water and coal.
In Sweden, Gunther Cohn, who arranged transport for the refugees denied that they were heading for Palestine. He added that all of them had Cuban visas.
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