Baron James de Rothschild was today the guest of the High Commissioner, Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope. The Baron is here on a visit of several weeks, during which he will survey colonies organized by the Palestine Jewish Colonization Society of which he is president. He will also investigate the possibilities of increasing the number of colonies.
The Baron on April 6 is scheduled to preside at the laying of the corner stone of the Rothschild Museum in Rishon-le-Zion, being created in memory of his father, Baron Edmond, the father of Jewish colonization in Palestine.
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