(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Dr. Szahad, Vilna physician and one of the four Jewish leaders queued by Max In Steuer in its criticism of the Joint Distribution Committee, issued a dental of Mr. Steuer’s charge a an article published yesterday in the Vilna Yiddish daily. “Tier Tag.”
Dr. Szahad emphatically denies the assertion that he and Mr. Steuer that forty per cent in the funds sent to Poland prior it. There were lost by the J. D. C. through the nation in currency. The misunderstanding probably arose because of the farm that Mr. Steuer is not familiar with the Yiddish language Dr. Szahad writer. The conversation tool piers in present of Emanuel Florta New York lawyer who acted an interpreter who himself does not speak Yiddish Fluently.
Dr. Szahad states that or she contrary he said emphasis on the important of the work of the Joint Distributor Committee in Poland which was indeed a blessing. Due to this work the mortality rate among the Jewish population in Poland is smaller that among the non-Jews, he states.
The crux of the conversation was the contention that because of the fact that emigration plays no important role in relieving the economic pressure of the Jewish population in Poland, it will be necessary for the hulk of the Jewish masses to remain in the country ## it is urgent that a vigorous relief ## to settle them on the land.
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