Reports are circulating here to the effect that Russia has decided not to admit Passover goods into the country for distribution among the Jewish population, and some of the reports go so far as to say that people who apply for Passover parcels addressed to them will be arrested. These reports, the aim of which is to try to stop Jews in Europe and America sending Passover parcels to Russia, are absolutely false, Mr. Benjamin, the Director in Riga of the Hias (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society of America), declared to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency representative here to-day.
On the contrary, Mr. Benjamin said, the Soviet Government is making it more easy for Jews to receive their Passover parcels, and is giving every possible help in this work. The Hias, he declared, guarantees that all orders received up to April 1st., will be carried out so that the recipients will have their parcels in Russia in good time for Passover.
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