REFUGEES
CAUSE NO CRISIS
AT
DELAWARE BREAKWATER IN 1943
The
Portuguese Serpa Pinto sailing from Lisbon, under a travel
agreement
approved by both Washington and Berlin , brought
188
passengers, among them 100 war refugees and 36 children
through
the Delaware Breakwater early Sunday morning to the
safety
of Philadelphia Port waters. They had spent the night off
Marcus
Hook.
All
though it is safe at a Philadelphia dock passengers are not allowed
to
disembark
for several days.
There
were 43 Americans who had been waiting months for passage
home
and 35 men and women one time residents of now Nazi
countries.
The
ship made the Atlantic under full illumination and the captain
reported
his location each day to both Washington and Berlin under
the
“agreement” of safe conduct so no one would fire upon her.
This
is the second trip the Serpa Pinto has made within the year when
it
brought 200 refugees here last November:
Abstract:
Monday, January 25, 1943, Philadelphia Inquirer
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