EXILED DANZIG JEWS.
FOR UNKNOWN DESTINATION
DANZIG, March 5
The first contingent of 500 exiled Jews have entrained at Danzig alter an examination by the Nazis to ensure that they were not taking away any currency. It is believed that they are proceeding by way of Hungary and Rumania, and will embark on a steamer at Constanza. Their probable destination is Palestine, but they do not possess passports permitting their entry. SETTLEMENT PLANS. VANCOUVER, March 9. Canadian Government officials have accepted quite agreeably a proposal of the British Government to send 3000 Sudeten Germans to Canada in the next 60 days. They will have £3OO per family, furnished by the Czech Government from British loans. All are farmers, and the plan is to settle them in the Peace River country of the north-west and along the Canadian National Railway through western Canada. Provincial officials suggest that they will be mixed with present settlers and not established in segregated communities where separate national and language difficulties would he accentuated.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 94, 21 March 1939, Page 7
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168EXILED DANZIG JEWS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 94, 21 March 1939, Page 7
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