Jewish emigration from Lithuania in the last few years has grown to a point where it now constitutes eighty-five per cent of the total, according to figures made public here today.
In the course of the first three months of 1935, 509 Jews left Lithuania as compared with 280 in the same period of 1934 and 273 in 1933.
The chief country of settlement for these emigrants, this year and last year, has been Palestine. Of the 509 who left Lithuania this year, 164 men and 225 women settled in the Holy Land.
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