(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
An additional 1150 Jewish families will be settled on the land in White Russia during the year 1927. according to the present plans of the White Russian Commissariat of Agriculture.
An area of 5,000 desiatin of land was allotted for this purpose. One thousand families will be sent from White Russia to the Crimea to be settled on the land there.
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