In the text of the report of the amendments adopted by the Zionist Congress to the draft of the Agency constitution published in the “Jewish Daily Bulletin” of August 9, a regrettable error crept in. It was erroneously stated that the Congress decided to amend the schedule of allottments of non-Zionist seats on the Agency Council with respect to Poland, granting 14 seats instead of 7. This should have read: 14 seats instead of 13.
Haja Lipschitz, a Communist prisoner in the Cluj, Roumania, jail, started a hunger strike forty days ago. On Sunday she was pardoned, but the pardon came too late, and she died Sunday night in a hospital, to which she had been transferred from the prison.
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