Already concerned over the status of the Jews of Saloniki as a result of the anti-Jewish riots there earlier in the week, the Zionist Congress today received a cabled appeal from leaders of Saloniki Jewry urging central Jewish organizations to intervene immediately in the Saloniki situation. “If no immediate outside intervention is forthcoming the lives of the entire Jewish population are in danger,” the plea declares.
The Saloniki Jews urge that a special representative be sent there at once. They point out that the danger has not yet passed and that all Jewish quarters have been evacuated. The central government is sympathetic but the local authorities are inactive, the Congress was informed. A strict censorship makes it impossible for correspondents to cable details of the situation or even to mail full reports, the Saloniki leaders cabled.
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