(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The amount of 100,000 roubles was allotted by the Comzet, the governmental department for settling Jews on the land, to inaugurate Jewish colonization work in Bureya, Siberia.
Two hundred Jewish families in Smolensk have registered for settlement in Bureay.
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