The Warsaw Rabbinate disclosed today that Christian missionaries, taking advantage of the dire straits to which Jews have been reduced, are pressing missionary activities among them.
The local missionary, according to the rabbinate, has induced eight children of poverty-stricken Jewish families to frequent its quarters where they are secretly taught the preliminaries to baptism.
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