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Show TURKISH SOLDIERS MALTREAT HEBREWS 'Many Refugees Flee Prom Palestine; Christiana Also Complain of Ot- toman Abuse. J j NEW YORK, Feb. 10. On board the steamship Themistoclas, which arrived here today from polls in Greece, were twenty-seven Hebrews in chasge of Kabbi Bernard Levin, formerly or Chicago, Chi-cago, who said they were driven from Palestine by the Turkish troops. The party was among the 800 refugees refu-gees taKeD from Jaffa to Alexandria. Kgypt, by the United States cruiser Teu u esse e. Fabbi Levin paid that all the refugees refu-gees in his party went from the United fcitates to Palestine from seven to eleven rears ago in connection with tho Zionist Zion-ist movement. He himself had been living liv-ing in Palestine for eleven years. Members Mem-bers ol' the party were unanimous in assrtircr that not only had the Hebrews in Palestine been badlv treated by the Turkish soldiers, but that all Christian foreigners received similar treatment. Bel ore, during and after the mobilization mobiliza-tion of the troops, the majority of Rab-hi Rab-hi Levin's party werp set to work making mak-ing uniforms and shoes lor the soldiers. they said, and were told that they would receive pay for their labor "some time in- the future." |