ZIONIST MOVEMENT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17696, 24 January 1918, Page 4

ZIONIST MOVEMENT.

JEWISH NATION IN PALESTINE.

AN IMPORTANT STATEMENT.

1 F,outer's Telegrams. LONDON, January 22. At the Jewish conference at Bradford a member of the executive council of the Zionist Federation stated that tho Government intended shortly to allow a commission to proceed to Palestine to prepare for the establishment of a Jewish nation. Thereafter a staff of technical experts, engineers, architects. agriculturists and town planners would go out. The Zionists’ mission did not intend to create a group of international financiers to exploit Palestine, hut to place on the land by purchase a Jewish proletariat that would work harmoniously with the Arabs.