"Washington, Jan. 11.
Nearly 300,000 persons from Germany are now waiting permission to emigrate to the United States, Government officials here have been formed. Officials attribute the pres-re to the new anti-Semitic laws in Reich. Nearly 90 per cent. of the applications are reported fo come from Jews.
The flood of applications is the greatest since passage of the Immigration Law in 1924. As regulations permit only 27,370 Germans to enter the United States annually, it would fake 11 years to work through the present waiting list, provided all are accepted. The German quota was filled in 1938 for the first time since 1929.
Pressure has been so great on four American consulates which grant visas in Germany that they have had to call for reinforcements. Several neW consular officials and clerks have Been despatched to offices in Berlin, Hamburg, Stuttgart and Vienna. Reuter.
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