Ten carloads of flour have been sent by the Agrojoint into the Jewish colonies of the Cherson and Krivoyrog districts in the Ukraine, in order to relieve the distress caused by the shortage of food there, according to information received here today, despite the fact that the Agrojoint has not been working in these regions for the past two years. The flour was bought in Russia with the aid of the Comzet, the Soviet Government Commission for Jewish Settlement, the Agrojoint agreeing to pay for it in valuta in order to guarantee sufficient food for the Jewish colonists until the new crop is available.
The only region where the Jewish colonists are not suffering from a shortage of bread is the Crimea. In the entire Ukraine, however, both Jewish and non-Jewish peasants have no food. The shortage of food, which is affecting not only the villages in the Ukraine, but also the cities, is driving hundreds of Jews from the Ukrainian townships into the Crimea, anxious to obtain facilities to go into the colonies there, because there is sufficient food in the Crimea.
Among those who are now deserting the townships are many Jews who were already on the soil previously, but left the colonies when the industrialisation movement started and went back to their hometowns to work in the factories there. Now they are invading the Comzet offices, asking to be sent back to the land.
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