A group of 238 Jewish refugees who succeeded in escaping from Rumania on the Turkish steamer “Milka” and were permitted to land in Turkey through the intervention of U. S. Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt, left Istanbul yesterday by train for Palestine, according to a cable received today by Dr. James G. Heller, national chairman of the United Palestine Appeal, from the Jewish Agency representative in Turkey.
The cable reported that among the refugees were 209 Jews who had escaped from Czernowitz just before the German armies were driven from the city. The remainder had fled from Bucharest. They sailed from the Rumanian port of Constanza without any Turkish visas, but were permitted to land in Turkey after. Ambassador Steinhardt obtained special permission from the Turkish Foreign Minister.
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