TRAGEDY AT SEA

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 49, 27 February 1942, Page 5

TRAGEDY AT SEA

HUNDREDS OF JEWISH VICTIMS

LONDON, February 25.

The steamer Strouma, with about 750 Jews on board, was sunk near the Dardanelles zone. The passengers applied for permission to enter Palestine, which the British authorities refused, and were being sent back to Europe.

Berlin radio, quoting a message from Ankara, said that only 60 of the emigrants aboard the Strouma have been saved.

The Jewish agency for Palestine (in London) isfued a statement today saying that every effort has been made to persuade the Palestine Administration to admit refugees. The only concession was authority to admit children under 16. The British authorities objected to the admission of the adults, on the ground that they might include enemy agents, and also on the ground of a shortage of supplies in Palestine. The agency claimed that the first objection was satisfied by a suggestion for placing all the refugees in internment camps for investigation. With regard to the second, it contended that as the refugees came under the schedule of immigration already granted the problem of supplies did jiot. arise.

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