During the first three months of this year 3,166 immigrants entered Palestine, according to official figures, compared with 9,082 in the first quarter of last year. Among the new arrivals were 477 non-Jews as against 523 last year.
The capitalist immigrants numbered 354; labor immigrants, 662, and relatives of persons already here, 1,078.
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