Thirty one members of the Zeire Zion party were exiled to Siberia during the month of December, according to a report received by the “Daily Telegraph” from Moscow. Two Zionists, Greenfield and Basevitch, were exiled to remote districts and, in spite of the extreme cold, were prohibited from taking along warm clothing.
The Zionist leader Mikharek was exiled from Elisabethgrad and ordered to spend three years on the Solovetzky Islands in the White Sea.
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