Jos van Severen, leader of the Belgian Dinazos, Hitlerite party, was deported from The Netherlands after he had adpeared here suddenly and delivered an anti-Semitic address at a mass meeting.
Dutch detectives trailed him after the meeting and arrested him. He was immediately taken to the Belgian border.
Seventeen Jews were arrested when detectives conducted a series of raids in the Jewish quarter in a hunt for illegal immigrants. All those arrested were found to have no passports and to have slipped into the country at unguarded points along the frontier.
The entire group will be deported.
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