Thirteen percent of the Jewish population of White Russia are now peasants, states a report issued on the fourth anniversary of the White Russian Comzet, governmental department for settling Jews on the land.
Eighty-five hundred Jewish families in White Russia now occupy 50,000 acres, the Comzet reported.
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