The difficulties in the Crimean Jewish colonies continue unabated, the Yiddish Communist organ “Emess” here admits to-day, uttering a warning that these conditions must not be allowed to grow and assume panic proportions. The absence of preparation for even the most elementary needs of the new arrivals, it says, is resulting in hundreds of families rushing back to the ghettos from which they came. The largest single group returning from the colonies is that which has left Simferopol, consisting of 150 families.
The Crimean leaders have telegraphed to the Jewish Colonisation Commission (Comzet) in Moscow, demanding that it should intervene in order to fix the responsibility for “the criminal failure to provide proper accommodation for the incoming would be colonists, and to bring the guilty persons and institutions to justice.”
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