An Arab was arrested here today for distributing Nazi leaflets in the French language. He said it had been given him by an officer of the S.S. “Smyrna,” of the Deutsche Levant Line, which had loaded oranges for Germany.
The title of the leaflet is “German Competition in Eastern Countries.” The charge is that the literature was smuggled through the Customs.
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