PARITA SINKING
JEWISH REFUGEES TAKEN OFF.
AFTER MANY WEEKS OF WAITING,
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Dav, 11.10 a.m.) JERUSALEM. August 22. The steamer Parita is sinking, half a mile from Tel Aviv. Eight hundred Jewish refugees have been taken off.
According to a cablegram from Instanbul on August 11. Jews on the steamer Parita. mutinied and forced the captain to run ashore and so prevent her from leaving Turkish waters. The Turkish authorities had refused to permit some hundreds of Czcch-Jewish refugees aboard to land. The refugees had embarked at Constanza, and had been at sea fo rmany weeks in a hopeless quest for a port.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 August 1939, Page 6
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