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Show CONDITION OF JEWS IS AGAIN CRITICAL Thousands iu Poland and Lithuania 'Clamoring for Permission to Come to United States. i LONDON, March 5. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) "The Jewish situation situ-ation in Poland and Lithuania is so tragic t hat thousands aro starving and tens of thousands clamoring for permission to join their relatives in tho United States." says a report junt received by the London bureau of tho Zionist organization from its special commissioner, Israel Cohen. The question of reuniting families, the bureau bu-reau announces, has been presented to the state department at "Washington. At Lemberg, Mr. Cohen says, he made an inspection of the districts damaged durinc; the pogroms and spoke with nu-, merous victims as well as with Jewish representatives and with Colonel Wade of thi British mission to Poland. "There is abundant circumstantial evidence evi-dence proving," his report continues, "that the pogrom was organized bv the local military authorities who suoplied machine guns, hand grenades, automobiles and motor lorries. Thero are sworn protocols of r00 cases in which officer patrols took, part and "0P0 cass in which ordinary sol- diers took part. The names are known of: eighteen officers and seventy-two soldiers ! who ver guilty of participation in assaults as-saults and plunder. ! 'The Polish military command at Lem-, berg is making desperat o efforts to ob- : tiiin evidence of ish attacks on Polish .old Its as a justification for the pogrom. 1 Members of tlie Jish militia previously; rclciis'.i for l;ek of any rai charge were1 rearrested Mnd arc still imnrisonrd by the : order of the military eommanckr. despite' 1 1 1 cj d'ision of tho examining judge that thuv should bo liberated." |