(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Professor Elwood Meade of the United States Reclamation Bureau, and Dr. Jacob Lipman, experts of the Jewish Agency Palestine Survey Commission, arrived here yesterday. Professor Meade and Dr. Lipmen will investigate the agricuitural possibilities in Palestine and will report to the commission of the Jewish Agency with a view to the preparation of a ten year program of reclamation work in Palestine.
Twenty delegates representing Zionist societies in Palestine sailed to-day for Basle to attend the Fifteenth Zionist Congress which will open on August 30.
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