The news of the sudden death of Baron Edmond de Rothschild of Paris spread with lightning speed through the cities and colonies of the Yishuv and aroused much sorrow everywhere.
Memorial meetings in honor of the “father of the Jewish colonization movement in Palestine” are being arranged in all the larger cities. Special preparations are being made in the colonies established by the BILU, pioneer Russian colonization group, in co-
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