Lord Allenby, former commander of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force and now the High Commissioner for Egypt will be present at the unveiling at Beer Sheba of a bust of himself by the former Jewish Legionnaire, Melnikov, who in 1918 enlisted in Chicago. Sir Herbert Samuel will preside over the exercises.
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