have been bought for developing citrus groves.
The report emphasizes that over $250,000 has already been invested by the Jewish financial group which is interested in the colonization around Limassol. The aim of this group is to parcel the land and to settle Jewish families in the coastal belt, where the soil is fit for intensive agriculture.
STEP SEEN MERE FEELER
According to Near East and India, semi-official organ of the British Colonial Office, the projected bill prohibiting Jews from acquiring land in Cyprus without the permission of the British authorities there was only a move to test the reaction abroad.
A great deal of correspondence has resulted between the government and interested parties. The powers given by the proposed law were meant to be used only in case of an emergency, such as whole sale immigration and the sale of the land of Cypriot peasants.
In any case, it is not likely that the law will be passed in its present form if it ever comes up again.
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