The Soviet government has decided to spend during this year two and a quarter million roubles to aid the Jewish colonies in the Crimea, according to an official announcement today.
The Agro-Joint announces that it will bring this Spring sixteen new tractors from the United States for the Crimean Jewish colonists, and also that it will spend there 750,000 roubles during the coming year for aid to the Jewish agriculturists.
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