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! ENGLAND MAY AID REFUGEES Chamberlain Reveals Plans to Locate Home for Unfortunate in British Territory. LONDON, England, Nov. 21. Great Britain moved forward rapidly today with its plans to find homes in British territory in Africa for German-Jewish refugees. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain informed the House of Commons that the governor of Tanganyika had expressed his readiness to co-operate in the program to help the Jews so far as existing local obligations permitted and that the governors of Rhodesia and Nyasaland had intimated that a settlement of Jews on a small scale might be possible. The prime minister announced that the government of Kenya had approved a small experimental scheme whereby young Jews would be settled on farms and later, if the scheme proved successful, would be enabled to have their families join them. Chamberlain made clear that any acceptance by the colonies of Jewish refugees was dependent on the co-operation of voluntary organizations working on behalf of the exiles. "These organizations," he said, "would have to undertake full responsibility for the cost of preparing the land and settling refugees of suitable types as the land is made available." In this section the prime minister confirmed word that voluntary organizations have been asked to conduct a land survey in British Guinea. In that territory, he asserted, probably 10,000 square miles of sparsely populated tracts would be available for refugee colonization. It is generally recognized, Chamberlain said, that Palestine is unable immediately to provide a solution of the refugee problem.
