350 Jews, accused of belonging to Zionist organizations, were arrested by the Soviet authorities in several towns of the government of Podol.
It is interesting that at the same time when the arrest of these Zionists were being made in the provinces, an All-Russian conference of the Zionist organization, “Hechalutz,” was taking place in Moscow.
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