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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16883, 10 July 1920, Page 12

Our London correspondent writes that Mr Israel Cohen has been entrusted by the Executive of the Zionist Organisation with an important mission— the first of its kind in the history of the movement —to join the Jewish communities in Australia, New Zealand, India, Japan, Java, the Straits Settlements, and the Far East. Its purpose is to explain the significance of the Peace Conference's decision concerning Palestine to extend and strengthen the ramifications of the Zionist movement, and to raise funds for the furtherance of Zionist projects in Palestine. Mr Cohen has left for Palestine, in order to obtain first-hand information of the country's developments and needs, and he will then go from Port Said to Fremantle, where his mission proper will begin. Ho has been furnished with credentials from the Foreign Office and the Colonial Office, and with special messages from the Zionist leaders. Dr. Qeizmann and Mr N. Sokolow, as well as from Lord Rothschild, Lord Robert I Cecil, Mr Herbert Samuel, Dr. Nordau, and others. His tour is expected to last until the end of the year.