Review of reviews and world's work . theinvitation of Ahmed Riza, president of theTurkish Parliament, communicated to Ha-cham-Bashi, the spiritual head of the Jews inTurkey, and extended to the Jews of Russiaand Roumania, to emigrate to Turkey. Inaddition to making the offer of Mesopotamiafor a Jewish state, noted in these pages lastmonth, the government of Sultan Mehmed\. has openly declared that it will abolish allrestrictions against Jewish immigration andconfer full citizenship upon Jewish immi-grants immediately upon their arrival. The Nothing is, perhaps, more dramat- New Ically illustra
Review of reviews and world's work . theinvitation of Ahmed Riza, president of theTurkish Parliament, communicated to Ha-cham-Bashi, the spiritual head of the Jews inTurkey, and extended to the Jews of Russiaand Roumania, to emigrate to Turkey. Inaddition to making the offer of Mesopotamiafor a Jewish state, noted in these pages lastmonth, the government of Sultan Mehmed\. has openly declared that it will abolish allrestrictions against Jewish immigration andconfer full citizenship upon Jewish immi-grants immediately upon their arrival. The Nothing is, perhaps, more dramat- New Ically illustrative of the change Jerusalem. ^i , ^i that has come over the govern-ment and political life of Turkey than thereally startling things that have already beendone in Jerusalem under the constitutionalregime of the new governor. This official,who came to power upon the triumph of theYoung Turks last summer, in his letter tothe citizens declared : T have formed a commission composed of com-petent persons, whose duty it will be to inves-. WHEX UREf;K SIEETS TURK THEX COMES TUE OVCRETE. From the Inquirer (Philadelphia). 32 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS. tigate the agricultural needs of the provinceand to submit to me a report of the result oftheir investigations. I convened a meeting ofmerchants, with the object of creating a Cham-ber of Commerce which can serve as a consult-ing body. . Being assured of the ex-treme need of water for the town, I have con-fided to an energetic man the consideration ofa project to bring into Jerusalem the waters ofthe spring Arroub, and also the formation of acompany which is to procure the capital neces-sary for the work. I have placed myself incommunication with the Jaffa-Jerusalem Rail-way Company, and have asked them to con-sider the question of a junction of their rail-road with the Haifa-Damascus line, and am en-deavoring to promote, by the construction ofother railway lines, the easy and free access toall parts of the country of travelers
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