This year’s quota of settlers for Bureya, the autonomous Jewish region which Soviet Russia is establishing in the Far East, originally fixed for 25,000 and subsequently reduced to 17,000, has now been cut down to 6,800. This drastic cut is not due to any lack of prospective immigrants, who this year are more numerous than in the past, but to the absence of food supplies and shelter for a larger number of people.
A complete cessation of emigration to Bureya until the latter half of the year has been ordered. It is hoped that conditions will improve later in the year and permit the resumption of the colonization program.
The central committee charged with the development of the region, scolds local organizations throughout Russia for their bad selection of settlers, in a statement announcing the stoppage of immigration. It charges them with sending the most unsuitable people without sufficient clothing or training to fend for themselves, and threatens severe action against those responsible for this state of affairs.
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