Mr. Raschkes, the head of the Jewish colonisation work in the Bureya region, in Siberia, has just arrived in Riga.
The purpose of his visit, the J.T.A. representative learns, is to recruit for Bureya Jewish artisans and specialists in Latvia and in Lithuania, to which country he is proceeding from here.
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