### careful investigation completely disproves the reports current in the American and European press that there is in the Ukraine a Jewish self-defence army of half a million. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent learns there are small groups of Jewish young men armed to resist possible aggression, and scattered through hundreds of towns. Their total is not more than a few thousand men, however. Undoubtedly a much greater force could be mobilized in an emergency, but there does not appear to be any necessity for a Jewish self-defence army.
A visit to many points in the Ukraine reveals that the Red Army is more than a match for the bandits who are heard from occasionally, and that the Jews are safe as long as the Red Army is supreme.
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