The first contingent of this season’s summer tourists departed Saturday on the Gdynia-America Liner Kosciuszko for Poland, Soviet Russia, Rumania and Palestine. Among the 302 passengers were 30 men and women bound for Palestine under the passengers were thirty men and women bound for Palestine under the leadership of Victor Handelman of the Poale Zion-Zeire Zion Party. After visiting relatives in Poland, they will study industrial and agricultural conditions in Palestine before deciding to settle there.
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