Many on both sides have been wounded and 40 arrests have been made following a serious fight between Jewish Communists and members of the Zionist Revisionist Youth organisation, the Brith Trumpeldor, which broke out here during a lecture on the Jewish settlement movement in the Bureya region of Siberia, delivered by Madame Gina Medem, the widow of the late Vladimir Medem, the famous leader of the Jewish Socialist Party Bund.
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