Max Seligman, attorney for the Jews deported to Eritrea by the Palestine Government, revealed today that Benjamin Zereoni and Jacob Gurewitz, who escaped from Eritrea to nearby Ethiopia, have been arrested in Addis Ababa, the Abyssinian capital, and are threatened with return to Eritrea.
Seligman announced that he has wired high Abyssinian authorities, stressing that the deportation of the two fugitives would be a breach of international law.
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