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Show JERUSALEM FACES SHORTAGE OF FOOD London, Dec. 20. The terrible plight of the inhabitants of Jerusalem is revealed re-vealed in the following special dispatch dis-patch to the Iondon Jewish Chronicle Chron-icle from Jerusalem: The cloud of anxiety and distress which has been hanging over Jerusalem Jerusa-lem since Turkey decided to mobilize has culminated in horror. The American Amer-ican flag flies over the British consulate, con-sulate, meaning that the English are left to the protection of the United States. The Anglo-Palestine bank files the same flag and on the premises prem-ises of the Russian consulate the Italian Itali-an colors float In Jerusalem the Jews number about .".0,000 aliens, but the town is quiet. The dread is not of massacre, hut of starvation. For more than a month now of the more than 60,000 Jews 40,000 have been dependent upon the charity of the world. The men chosen by America for their agenLs are Ephralm Cohen in Jerusalem. Dr. A. Ruppin in Jaffa and Mr. Aronsohn in the Palestine colonies. |