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Soviet Mission in Kaunas to Effect Population Transfer; Lithuanian Nationals Defined

November 22, 1939
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A delegation from Soviet Russia has arrived here to arrange the transfer of an estimated 100,000 White Russians and Jews to the Soviet Union from Lithuanian districts in the Wilno province.

Under a recently concluded arrangement for shift of populations, the same number of Lithuanians will be moved to this country from the Russian districts of Wilno.

Part of the province, including the city of Wilno, was ceded by Russia to Lithuania after the dismemberment of Poland.

Meanwhile, the Lithuanian Parliament has approved a new law specifying which residents of Wilno are entitled to Lithuanian nationality. Under the law, all residents of Wilno are to be considered Lithuanians who can prove they lived there between 1904 and 1913, or from August 6, 1920 — the date of ratification of the Russo-Lithuanian peace until last Oct. 27 — when Lithuanian troops entered the district.

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