APPEAL TO FRANCE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22416, 25 August 1947, Page 6

APPEAL TO FRANCE

TAKE BACK JEW MIGRANTS BOUND FOR GERMANY (10 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 24. The British Government has asked the French Government to receive back into France the Jews travelling by ships from Port de Bouc to Hamburg, reports Pouter's correspondent in Paris- They would be brought to France by train from the British zone in Germany. The French Foreign Office spokesman said the Cabinet would consider the British request next week. Reuter's correspondent aboard the Runnymede Park, in a dispatch datehr.ed “Oil the coast of Spain,” says:— “The immigrants are calmly cheerful. They are eating well from the ship’s rations, augmented by fresh French supplies. Relations between the refugees and the British troops are still friendly.” The Jewish Agency, in an effort to prevent the British Government landing the immigrants in Hamburg, applied for a writ which will be heard on August 27 and calls on them to produce six persons named in the writ —persons on board the Runnymede Park, Empire Rival and Ocean Vigour.