An official denial of reports that Russian authorities in Bessarabia and Bukovina are transferring Jews from those areas to the Urals and Siberia was issued here today by the Soviet Jewish Press Agency.
Replying to a request by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency for information conceraing the reports, which were published last month in the palestine Hebrew press, the Jewish Press Agency stated:
“Rumors spread by the Palestine press regarding the deportation of Bukovinian and Bessarabian Jews to Siberia and the Urals are merely one more anti-Soviet canard. In connection with the military situation some people are drafted for the labor front. Among the draftees are Russians. Ukrainians, Byelorussians and others. Jews farm no exception.”
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