Thirty-eight Zionists who were sentenced here by the Cheka to hard labor in Siberia, were permitted by the Soviet Government to proceed, instead, to Palestine. The arrested Zionists had asked the Zionist headquarters for visas to Palestine, and their request was granted.
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