The American Consulate at Kaunas has received from the former Warsaw Consulate documents concerning the emigration of Polish citizens who are now refugees in Lithuania, it was learned here today. The documents cover more than 1,500 individual cases, of which about 90 per cent are Jews who had previously applied for American visas.
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