(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The Soviet government grants greater aid to the Jewish settlers in Bureya than in the Ukraine or Crimea, according to a report brought back from the Bureya region by a commission which went to investigate conditions there. The commission was composed of two teachers and two students from Zhitomir. The result of their investigation is published in the “Emes,” Moscow Yiddish Comunist daily.
“The government aid to the Bureya transmigrants is great. It cannot even be compared with the aid given to the transmigrants in the Ukraine and Crimea. Everything is given the Bureya settlers on excellent terms,” the commission’s report states.
The “Emes” also publishes a letter from Jewish settlers in Yekaterina Nikolsk protesting against reports of bad conditions there. The situation is good, the settlers write.
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