Official announcement of the prolongation for another three years of the working agreement for aiding Jewish migrants between the Jewish Colonization Association and the Emigdirekt, was made here today. The present agreement, which expires in April 1930, will be extended to 1933.
Aaron Benjamin, the European representative of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America, sailed for the United States to submit the agreement for the signature of the Hias president, Abraham Herman.
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