The Soviet Embassy here has issued a denial of the reports carried by the press in Palestine that Russian authorities in liberated Bessarabia, Bukovina and the eastern section of Poland are transferring sections of the population to Siberia and that several hundred Jews have already been removed from Czernovitz, capital of Bukovina, to the Urals.
The denial says that the facts mentioned in the report “are all wrong and do not correspond with the reality.” The denial was addressed to the Federation of Bessarabian Societies of America which asked the embassy to verify the news which was cabled from Jerusalem to this country.
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