THE NEW YORK TIMES Migrant Influx in Germany Raises Fears of Anti-Semitism These days, all talk here is of the ramifications of taking in more than one million asylum seekers who arrived over the past year. Read more»

PARIS — The detention of Russian Jews at the Barge Office is due to the orders of Colonel Weber, the Immigration Commissioner. This is pending the result of the investigation ordered by the Treasury Department at Washington into the strenuous efforts alleged to have been made by a British official, said to be a prominent member of a Jewish social organization, to divert from England the destitute expatriated Russian Jews who are flowing into Germany at the rate of 700 a day, by warning them that the labor market in England is overstocked, and suggesting that they be sent to America or Palestine. — The New York Herald, European Edition, July 20, 1891