HC Deb 09 April 1930 vol 237 cc2148-9
38. Colonel HOWARD-BURY

asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he can give the figures of non-Jewish immigrants into Palestine from 1921 to 1929 and what percentage they bear to Jewish immigrants?

Dr. SHIELS

I have no figures for the period prior to the 3rd June, 1921. From that date to the end of 1929, some 6,400 non-Jewish immigrants entered Palestine. The number of Jewish immigrants during the same period was approximately 89,900. The proportion of non-Jewish to Jewish immigrants works out at about 7 per cent.