All trains running between Moscow and Vladivostok will in the future have a special coach for Jewish immigrants proceeding to Bira Bidjan, it was announced here today.
The coach will have signs in Yiddish and other Yiddish insignia to indicate that it is enroute to Bira Bidjan.
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