Among the passengers who arrived here Saturday on the “Leviathan” from Cherbourg, was Dr. D. Lvovitch of Kiev, who comes here in the interests of the Ort Reconstruction Fund. He said his purpose is to collect funds from Jews in the United States to purchase machinery and raw materials for 8,000 Jewish farmer families in Bessarabia, who have received from the Roumanian Government several thousand acres of land for cultivation.
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