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120 Palestinians Return from Poland

September 20, 1939
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A hundred and twenty Palestinian Jews arrived here from Poland today and reported that Warsaw was a total ruin. They were visiting in Poland when the war broke out, escaped from Warsaw on Sept. 10 and made their way to Palestine via Rumania.

Meanwhile, the Coast Guard captured a Panama-flagged steamship, the Nuzli Julia, carrying 1,200 Jewish illegal immigrants. The captain of the ship is Russian.

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