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Document of the day - 31st March

Volume 5
No. 162
Leo McCauley (New York) to Robert Brennan (Washington)

New York Consulate
31st March 1938

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Deportations, Desertions, Etc.
Seventy-one deportation cases were dealt with of which thirty were concluded.
Enquiries were received from 40 persons in Ireland seeking to find missing relatives and the Consulate General was successful in finding 9 of these persons and putting them in touch with their relatives.
Ten cases of desertion were dealt with during the period and financial contributions for the deserted spouse in Ireland were obtained in 4 of these cases. Twenty-two distress cases were brought to the notice of the Consulate General.