FEW PASSAGES TAKEN
YUGOSLAV SHIP AT SYDNEY SYDNEY, January 12. The Yugoslav Government ship Partizanka, which will take Slavs, Albanians and Bulgarians home from Australia and New Zealand, will be only half full this trip, according to her agents. The Partizanka is now in Sydney, with GOO migrants from Europe, including 1.10 Maltese. The agents say she will take about ISO Yugoslavs and 1.00 Albanians and Bulgarians from Australia, and about 20 Yugoslavs from New Zealand. Last year she took home about 710 Yugoslavs. The reasons for the decline In numbers tins time are the present virtual Soviet bloekadd of Yugoslavia, and (lie refusal of the Yugoslav Government to reissue passports to nationals who wish to leave the country.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 79, 13 January 1949, Page 6
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