Jewish and Polish physicians and nurses who are refugees here are permitted to return to German-occupied Poland and resume their professional activities, according to a decision of the German authorities transmitted to the Lithuanian Red Cross today by the International Red Cross. It is understood the permission was granted because of the shortage of medical personnel and existence of widespread epidemics in Nazi Poland.
Meanwhile, the Lithuanian Government is continuing to distribute to the provinces the refugees concentrated in Wilno. Three thousand Jewish refugees, chiefly rabbinical seminary students and Zionist pioneers, have already been transferred and 30 are being settled daily. The authorities are anxious to evacuate the refugees completely from Wilno.
Meanwhile, concern was expressed here over the fate of three Polish Jewish writers, Saul Wagman, Nathan Schwable and Samuel Wolkowicz, who are interned in a camp in Russian-occupied Poland and face repatriation to Nazi-held territory. The writers are classed as war prisoners and since all prison camps in the Soviet area are being closed and the inmates returned to their homes, it is believed the three may be sent back to German-occupied Poland.
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