Reports from the Crimea state that a hurricane passed over the region yesterday. No reports have been received as to whether the Jewish colonies suffered damages.
Wyssozky, chairman of the Jewish Soviet in Kotelnye, Zhitomir, was sentenced to five years imprisonment and his assistant. Strugatch to nine months, for abuse of power and terrorizing the local inhabitants.
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