Large numbers of Czech Jews have come from all corners of the world, including China, Palestine and the Dutch East Indies, to volunteer for service in the Czechoslovakian Army in France, it was announced today by the Czechoslovak National Committee. The committee pointed out that the percentage of Jewish volunteers in the army was much higher than that of Jews in the population of former Czechoslovakia.
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