Sixty students of the Yeshiva are under arrest in Bialystok as refugees whose leave to remain in Poland expired under the Government order on April 15. Rabbi Reissman is endeavoring to secure special permission for their continued residence, the Warsaw authorities having promised to exempt clericals and Talmudic students from the operation of the expulsion decree.
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