The Jewish colonisation campaign and the movement of the Jews from the small towns to the land in the Crimea and in the Bureya region in Siberia this year has proved a failure, the organ of the Jewish Colonisation Society (Ozet), the “Tribuna”, admits in a leading article to-day. Only 50 per cent. of the quota for the year has been filled, it says, meaning that only about a half the number of Jews whom it was intended to settle this year have availed themselves of the opportunity. The Crimea, in particular, it says, is hopelessly unprepared for receiving new arrivals, and this has caused much suffering to the new settlers and has damaged the entire colonisation project.
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