Refugees who are able to satisfy the Cuban authorities as to their sincere devotion to the cause of the democracies in the struggle against the Axis powers will be freed from Triscornia, the immigration station where refugees and recent arrivals as Cuba are being detained for a variety of reasons, it was reported today by the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society on the basis of a report received from the Centre Israelite de Cuba.
Eighty refugees who were interned at Triscornia have been permitted to land during the month, the report said. Among these who received the permits were men and women of Dutch, Yugoslavian and Russian nationalities. The Cuban Department of Immigration, according to assurances given by its Director General, is striving to release all Jewish refugees from internment camps in the near futures, the report added.
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