Hundreds of Jewish colonists in the Ukraine and Crimea, now without bread will not go hungry because the Soviet government has begun to provide them with flour on credit until a new crop is reported. The lack of bread was foreseen because during the grain collection last November the Jewish colonists submitted to the government more than they could, leaving for themselves limited reserves which are now exhausted.
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