The White Russian Comzet (Government Commission for Jewish Settlement) has not done sufficient for the development of the projected Jewish region in Bureya, the White Russian Central Executive Committee states in an official decree, declaring that the creation of a Jewish autonomous region in Bureya is of great political importance, and instructing its Committee for National Minority Affairs to take over the work of supervising the development of Bureya, in order to ensure its more rapid growth to enable it to be proclaimed a Jewish autonomous unit.
The decree provides that a special expedition should be sent out to Bureya soon, to establish what it is necessary to do to further the development of the work in Bureya.
Every local Soviet and Government Commissariat in White Russia is instructed in the decree to take a direct and effective interest in helping to promote the development of Bureya.
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