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Show JEWS IN HOLY CITY REDUCED TO 33,000 NEW YORK. Feb. 6. Disease, starvation starva-tion and expulsions have reduced the Jewish popxilation of Jerusalem to 33,000 . cr about 40 per cent in the three and one-half years since the war began, according ac-cording to cable advices received by the Palestine restoration iund commission here. With the advance of the British into Palestine, the Turks made wholesale de-! de-! porta t ions of Jews from the seaport t towns. From Jaffa, pome 10.000 Jews fled the Turkish power or were driven out. it is reported. The British authorities in Falestine have cabled that there is urgent need for the hospital unit which Hadassah, the women's Zionist organization. is planning to send from the United States. The British are arranging transport facilities fa-cilities for the unit. |