While refugees from Alsace and Lorraine have been offered an opportunity to settle in North Africa, a number of cases are reported of Jews from these regions refused permission to emigrate there. Informed sources said, in justification of the discrimination, that anti-Jewish feeling was violent among the natives in North Africa.
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