The Russian land commissariat today decided to establish control over the Comzet, the government department for settling the Jews on the land. In order to effect this the land commissariat has appointed one of its members, Odintzov, to acquaint himself with methods of conducting Jewish colonization.
Simultaneously the Jewish Telegraphic Agency learns that the land commissariat has decided to send a special staff of government inspectors to Bira Bidjan, Far Eastern Republic, to see on the spot the work of Jewish settlement and to report their findings to the government.
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