(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The movement to settle Jews on the land in Russia is acquiring many friends among the non-Jews, according to the headquarters of the Ozet, the society for settling Jews on the land.
The society reports that in several places its membership among non-Jews is greater than among Jews. In the town Mizdok in the North Caucasus district there are only three families of European Jews and sixty families of Caucasian Jews. In that city the Ozet has a membership of 200 of whom 140 are non-Jews. The committee which consists of five, includes 4 non-Jews.
In the district of Tersk, Caucasia, the non-Jewish membership of the Ozet amounts to 64 per cent.; in the district of Tultchin, Podol, the non-Jewish membership is 35 per cent., in Kislovidsk the non-Jewish membership is also 35 per cent. Throughout the Caucasus many Cossacks have joined the Ozet. The average of the non-Jews in the membership of the Ozet is 10 per cent.
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