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Apostasy or Death is Alternative to Jews; Many Killed

April 4, 1923
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The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (J. C. B.) will be glad to answer inquiries for further information about any of the news items contained in this Bulletin.

Reports of indescribable atrocities against Yemenite Jews have been received here. Scores of Jews are said to have been killed in virtually uninterrupted warfare on Jews launched by the Moslems.

Many of the Jews to escape death have nominally accepted Mohamedanism. Numerous Jewish children have been seized and given the alternative of death or conversion.

Hundreds of the Jews are in flight from town to town in an effort to escape their oppressors. Representatives of the Yemenites in Palestine have appealed to the Jewish organizations in Palestine to provide aid whereby the Yemenite Jews may be able to escape to Palestine.

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